Loneliness in World History

Auteur

Katie Barclay is ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney. She writes widely on the history of emotions, gender and family life.

Texte du rabat

This book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions--estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation--and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Belonging, Estrangement and the Communal Self 3. Loss and Longing 4. Physiologies 5. Space, Place and Time 6. Technologies 7. Solitude and Creativity 8. Conclusion