Description: A Biography of LonelinessThe History of an Emotion Author(s): Fay Bound Alberti Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198811343, 978-0198811343 Synopsis Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. And where loneliness is identified, it is not always bad, but a complex emotional state that differs according to class, gender, ethnicity and experience. Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern and embodied emotional state.
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Book Title: A Biography of Loneliness
Subject Area: Personality Psychology
Item Height: 225 mm
Item Width: 142 mm
Author: Fay Bound Alberti
Publication Name: A Biography of Loneliness: the History of an Emotion
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 434 g
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
