TY  - BOOK
ED  - Bergmann, Ina
ED  - Hippler, Stefan
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-07105-4
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201001_9783653071054_228
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42321
ID  - OAPEN ID: 48835
KW  - Literature: history and criticism
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Politics and government
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42321/1/9783653071054.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26157
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
PP  - Bern
PY  - 2017
TI  - Cultures of Solitude : Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation
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