The Routledge History of Loneliness

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Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
A History of Loneliness: An Introduction
Part 1 Representing Loneliness
	1 The Origins of ‘Loneliness’, the Oxford English Dictionary and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590)
	2 Polite Loneliness: The Problem Sociability of Spinsters in the Long Eighteenth Century
	3 Gender and Loneliness in Business: A Milliner and Her Agent in Eighteenth-Century Southern Europe
	4 ‘My Solitary and Retired Life’: Queen Charlotte’s Solitude(s)
	5 ‘I Feel as if Part of [My] Self Was Torn From Me’: Entrepreneurship, Absence and Loneliness in Nineteenth-Century England
	6 David Hume and the Disease of the Learned: Melancholy, Loneliness and Philosophy
	7 Falling In and Out of Place: The Errant Status of Solitude in Early Modern Europe
	8 ‘Here in My Loneliness, I Suffer’: Illness, Isolation and Loneliness in the Diaries of Kirsti Teräsvuori (1899–1988)
	9 Time, Space and Loneliness in Bengali and Marathi Poetry
	10 In Solitary Pursuit: Loneliness and the Quest for Love in Modern Britain
	11 Loneliness as Crisis in Britain after 1950: Temporality, Modernity and the Historical Gaze
Part 2 Household and Communities
	12 Loneliness and Food in Early Modern England
	13 ‘Disengagement From All Creatures’: Exploring Loneliness in Early Modern English Cloisters
	14 Ageing and Loneliness in England, 1500–1800
	15 Loneliness, Love and the Longing for Health: Mary Graham’s Consumption
	16 Loneliness and Contested Communities in Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831)
	17 Solitude in Early Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Europe
	18 ‘As an Only Child I Must Have Been Lonely Though I Was Not Aware of It at the Time’: Only Children’s Reflections on the Experience of Loneliness in Britain, 1850–1950
	19 Lonely in a Crowd: The Transformative Effect of School Culture in Schoolgirl and College Fiction
	20 ‘A Purer Form of Loneliness’: Loneliness and the Search for Community Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1940–1980
	21 Loneliness as Social Critique: Disregard and the Limits of Care in 21st-Century Japan
Part 3 Distance, Place and Displacement
	22 Loneliness and Sociability in Maritime and Colonial Space: A Comparative Intersectional Analysis of the Journals of Lt Ralph Clark and Dr Joseph Arnold
	23 The Loneliness of Leadership: Royal Naval Officers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
	24 ‘Small Uneasinesses and Petty Fears’: Life Cycle, Masculinity and Loneliness
	25 Lonely Places in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Scottish Balladry
	26 Navigating ‘Loneliness’ in the Reformed Lunatic Asylum: Britain, 1800–1860
	27 ‘There Is a Trace of You in the Air of That Room’: Practices of Coping With Separation From Friends in Late-Nineteenth-Century Finland
	28 ‘One of My Own Kind’: Jessie Currie’s Experience of Loneliness in British Central Africa, 1891–1894
	29 Loneliness, the Love Letter and the Performance of Romance During Wartime Separation, 1939–1945
	30 Voices From Lost Homelands: Loss, Longing and Loneliness
	31 ‘We Are Still Alive’: Refugees and Loneliness
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