A biography of loneliness : the history of an emotion
Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-2019
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Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. This book offers a radical 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 a historical, universal phenomenon.
Main title:
A biography of loneliness : the history of an emotion / Fay Bound Alberti.
Author:
Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Collation:
xvi, 298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780198811343 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2244355