02824oam 2200565 c 450 991042045780332120240525094506.010.3726/978-3-653-07105-4(CKB)5340000000000506(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26157(PH02)9783653071054(EXLCZ)99534000000000050620240525h20182017 uy 0engurnnunnnannuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCultures of SolitudeLoneliness - Limitation - LiberationIna Bergmann, Stefan Hippler1st, New ed.Frankfurt a.MPH0220182018, c20171 online resource (330 p.), EPDF 13 illPeter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften3-653-07105-4 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 IdentityThis 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 Inaedt1313943Bergmann InaedtHippler StefanedtPH02PH02BOOK9910420457803321Cultures of Solitude3031528UNINA