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oapen-20.500.12657-423212020-10-02T01:16:25Z Cultures of Solitude Bergmann, Ina Hippler, Stefan Literature: history and criticism History of the Americas Politics and government bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFB Housing & homelessness bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSS Alternative lifestyles 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. 2020-10-01T19:35:57Z 2020-10-01T19:35:57Z 2017 book ONIX_20201001_9783653071054_228 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42321 eng application/pdf n/a 9783653071054.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-07105-4 10.3726/978-3-653-07105-4 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 330 Bern open access
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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.
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