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CULTURES OF SOLITUDE GEBUNDEN

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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