The Routledge History of Loneliness

History of Loneliness: 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 & 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 Teraesvuori 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: Households, Families and Communities 12. Loneliness and Food in Early Modern England 13. 'Disengagement from all Creaturs': Exploring Loneliness in Early Modern English Cloisters 14. Ageing and Loneliness in England, c.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, c. 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 amongst Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1940-1980 21. Loneliness as Social Critique: Disregard and the Limits of Care in Twenty-First 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 & 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, c.1800-1860 27. 'There is a trace of you in the air of that room' - Practices of Coping with Separation from a Friend 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