EAN: 9783631679074

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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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