02367nam 2200481z- 450 991042045780332120231214133345.0(CKB)5340000000000506(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26157(EXLCZ)99534000000000050620202102d2017 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCultures of SolitudeLoneliness – Limitation – LiberationBernPeter Lang International Academic Publishing Group20171 electronic resource (330 p.)3-653-07105-4 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.Cultures of Solitude Literary studies: generalbicsscGeneral & world historybicsscHistory of the AmericasbicsscHousing & homelessnessbicsscAlternative lifestylesbicsscLiterature: history and criticismHistory of the AmericasPolitics and governmentLiterary studies: generalGeneral & world historyHistory of the AmericasHousing & homelessnessAlternative lifestylesBergmann Inaedt1313943Hippler StefanedtBergmann InaothHippler StefanothBOOK9910420457803321Cultures of Solitude3031528UNINA