Fay Bound Alberti: A Biography of Loneliness

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Beschreibung

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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
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

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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
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