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‘The communication technology of say the sixteenth century was as much about overcoming loneliness, but in different ways to how our Zoom discussion is working now.’

David Vincent in Husna, et al, ‘The Scales of Loneliness’ (p. 87; see below)






EARLY MODERN

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Henderson, Jennifer Caryl, ‘‘Out of Place’: Solitude and Social Isolation in Early Modern Travel Writings’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Western Australia, 2018)

Herbert, Amanda E., ‘English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century’, in Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland, ed. by Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), pp. 183–96

Holmes, Caitlin, ‘Claustrophobic Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Early Modern Quarantine’, John Donne Journal, 32 (2013), 149–73

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Luxon, Thomas H., Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005), ch. 5

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GENERAL

Bergmann, Ina, and Stefan Hippler, eds, Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2017)

Bound Alberti, Fay, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

Bound Alberti, Fay, ‘This “Modern Epidemic”: Loneliness as an Emotion Cluster and a Neglected Subject in the History of Emotions’, Emotion Review, 10.3 (2018), 242–54

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Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, Feeling Lonesome: The Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015)

Morland, James, Akshi Singh, and Charlie Williams, ‘Solitudes Past and Present’, special issue of Critical Quarterly, 65.2 (2023)

Sagan, Olivia, and Eric D. Miller, eds, Narratives of Loneliness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the 21st Century (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)

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