
Cultures of Solitude
Loneliness - Limitation - Liberation
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 13. June 2017
Book
Hardback
330 pages
978-3-631-67907-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays comprises cultural analyses of practices of eremitism and reclusiveness in the USA, which are inseparably linked to the American ideals of individualism and freedom. Covering a time frame from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the essays study cultural products such as novels, poems, plays, songs, paintings, television shows, films, and social media, which represent the costs and benefits of deliberate withdrawal and involuntary isolation from society. Thus, this book offers valuable contributions to contemporary cultural discourses on privacy, surveillance, new technology, pathology, anti-consumerism, simplification, and environmentalism. Solitaries can be read as trailblazers for an alternative future or as symptoms of a pathological society.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
13 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-67907-4 (9783631679074)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-07105-4
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ina Bergmann is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Stefan Hippler is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Content
Solitude and American Studies - Language, Body, and Gender - Gender, Politics, and Poetics - Society, Spirituality, and Religion - Space, Gender, and Ethnicity - Space, Identity, and Pathology - Technology, Community, and Identity