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《孤独的传记：一种情绪的历史》

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原标题：《孤独的传记：一种情绪的历史》

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

&The first book in English to specifically address the history of loneliness

&Provides a rich and important contribution to the histories of emotion, the body, social history and medical history

&Identifies loneliness as a radically new phenomenon, dating from around 1800 in the UK

&Highlights the physical as well as mental meanings of loneliness, with implications for its treatment

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. And where loneliness is identified, it is not always bad, but a complex emotional state that differs according to class, gender, ethnicity and experience.

尽管在21世纪人们担心孤独会成为一种“流行病”，但它的历史却被严重忽视了。《孤独的传记》对孤独作为一种情绪语言和体验进行了全新的解读。通过使用从18世纪到现在的信件和日记、哲学小册子、政治讨论和医学文献，情感史学家Fay Bound Alberti认为孤独不是一种非历史的、普遍的现象。事实上，它是一种现代情绪：在1800年以前，它的语言并不存在。而当孤独被识别出来时，它并不总是坏事，而是一种复杂的情绪状态，根据阶级、性别、种族和经历而不同。

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