Biography of Loneliness

Biography of Loneliness

The History of an Emotion

Bound Alberti, Fay

Oxford University Press

01/2021

320

Mole

Inglês

9780198811350

15 a 20 dias

322

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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