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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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  • Title A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
  • Author Fay Bound Alberti
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2019-11-12
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780198811343 / 0198811349
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.3 x 1.2 in (21.84 x 13.46 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Loneliness

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Dr Fay Bound Alberti is a Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of York. She is a TED speaker and has published widely on medicine, the body, gender and emotion in books and scholarly articles as well as in the media. She has taught at universities around the UK including UCL, Lancaster, Manchester, and York.
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