LEADER 02367nam 2200481z- 450 001 9910420457803321 005 20231214133345.0 035 $a(CKB)5340000000000506 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26157 035 $a(EXLCZ)995340000000000506 100 $a20202102d2017 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultures of Solitude$eLoneliness ? Limitation ? Liberation 210 $aBern$cPeter Lang International Academic Publishing Group$d2017 215 $a1 electronic resource (330 p.) 311 $a3-653-07105-4 330 $aThis 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. 517 $aCultures of Solitude 606 $aLiterary studies: general$2bicssc 606 $aGeneral & world history$2bicssc 606 $aHistory of the Americas$2bicssc 606 $aHousing & homelessness$2bicssc 606 $aAlternative lifestyles$2bicssc 610 $aLiterature: history and criticism 610 $aHistory of the Americas 610 $aPolitics and government 615 7$aLiterary studies: general 615 7$aGeneral & world history 615 7$aHistory of the Americas 615 7$aHousing & homelessness 615 7$aAlternative lifestyles 700 $aBergmann$b Ina$4edt$01313943 702 $aHippler$b Stefan$4edt 702 $aBergmann$b Ina$4oth 702 $aHippler$b Stefan$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910420457803321 996 $aCultures of Solitude$93031528 997 $aUNINA