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Table of contents : • Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.' A Biography of Loneliness' is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering 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 , its language did not exist. 0As Alberti shows, the birth of loneliness is linked to the development of modernity: the all-encompassing ideology of the individual that has emerged in the mind and physical sciences, in economic structures, in philosophy and politics. While it has a biography of its own, loneliness impacts on people differently, according to their gender, ethnicity, religion, outlook, and socio-economic position. It is, Alberti argues, not a single state but an 'emotion cluster', composed of a wide variety of responses that include fear, anger, resentment and sorrow. In spite of this, loneliness is not always negative. And it is ph
Cover
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE: No (Wo)man Is an Island
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness as a ‘Modern Epidemic’
A Biography of Loneliness
Embodied Loneliness
CHAPTER 1: WHEN ‘ONELINESS’ BECAME LONELINESS: The birth of a modern emotion
The Invention of Lonelivness
The Importance of Solitude
Solitude, Gender, and Class
Solitude and Health
The Making of Modern Loneliness
Loneliness as a Product of Historical Forces
CHAPTER 2: A ‘DISEASE OF THE BLOOD’?: The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath
The Loneliness of Childhood
‘I AM A SMITH GIRL NOW’
Loneliness and the Suicidal Urge
The Need for a Romantic Other
The Isolating Nature of Mental Illness
CHAPTER 3: LONELINESS AND LACK: Romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight
The ‘Soulmate’ as a Romantic Ideal
Love and the Soul in Fiction: The Case of Wuthering Heights
Love Conquers All, Even Werewolves and Vampires
CHAPTER 4: WIDOW(ER)HOOD AND LOSS: From Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor
Loneliness and Nostalgia
Widow(er)hood as a Particular Form of Loss
The Case of Thomas Turner
The Oneliness of Thomas Turner
The Widow of Windsor
The Loneliness of A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion