Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
<p>'In <i>Loneliness in World History</i>, Katie Barclay has produced a master class in how to study elusive emotions, like loneliness. She articulates the elisions and lapses in our understanding of "loneliness", recognising and exploring cultural and linguistic challenges in writing global history, while importantly historicising such modern concepts as "lonely", alone and solitary. While she asks more questions than she answers, this is a fascinating and engrossing read.'</p><p><b>Deborah Simonton,</b> <i>University of Turku, Finland</i></p><p>'This engaging book approaches an old problem with fresh eyes. Loneliness comes and goes, we’ve all experienced it. Feelings about being alone are intensely personal and difficult to examine objectively. As Katie Barclay demonstrates masterfully in a global history with dazzling breadth: loneliness is culturally specific and socially determined.'</p><p><b>Diana Barnes,</b> <i>University of New England, Australia</i></p>
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.
Loneliness is a topic of current concern, a downside of the anomie of the modern condition. Yet, emotions and experiences that share some of the features of loneliness can be found in cultures from the ancient world onwards. The book engages with discussions about what loneliness might encompass and how different societies and people have experienced it, raising key questions including where we place the boundaries of emotion, what makes particular emotions distinctive and cultural (or conversely universal), and how we might engage in comparative work across languages and cultures.
Loneliness in World History provides an introduction to an important contemporary emotion across cultures and time, and it is particularly suited for undergraduate students and those new to the field of the history of emotions.
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.
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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.