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A Biography of Loneliness
The History of an Emotion
Taschenbuch von Fay Bound Alberti
Sprache: Englisch

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Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
Über den Autor
Dr Fay Bound Alberti is a writer and cultural historian. She has taught at UK universities, including Manchester, Lancaster, Queen Mary, UCL and York, and researches the histories of gender, emotion, health, and medicine. Her books include Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion (2010), and This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (2016). Fay is a Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology, a Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of York, UK. Fay is currently writing a book on the history of face transplants.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Preface: No (Wo)man is an island

  • Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'

  • 1: When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion

  • 2: A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath

  • 3: Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight

  • 4: Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor

  • 5: Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community

  • 6: A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age

  • 7: Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'

  • 8: Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body

  • 9: Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift

  • Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age

  • Further reading

  • Appendix

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198811350
ISBN-10: 0198811357
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bound Alberti, Fay
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: Black and white images
Maße: 216 x 135 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Fay Bound Alberti
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,325 kg
Artikel-ID: 118866795
Über den Autor
Dr Fay Bound Alberti is a writer and cultural historian. She has taught at UK universities, including Manchester, Lancaster, Queen Mary, UCL and York, and researches the histories of gender, emotion, health, and medicine. Her books include Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion (2010), and This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (2016). Fay is a Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology, a Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of York, UK. Fay is currently writing a book on the history of face transplants.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Preface: No (Wo)man is an island

  • Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'

  • 1: When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion

  • 2: A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath

  • 3: Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight

  • 4: Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor

  • 5: Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community

  • 6: A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age

  • 7: Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'

  • 8: Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body

  • 9: Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift

  • Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age

  • Further reading

  • Appendix

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198811350
ISBN-10: 0198811357
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bound Alberti, Fay
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: Black and white images
Maße: 216 x 135 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Fay Bound Alberti
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,325 kg
Artikel-ID: 118866795
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