Chapter 11 Loneliness as Crisis in Britain after 1950 Temporality, Modernity and the Historical Gaze

• मुख्य लेखक: Cooper, Fred (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Taylor & Francis 2023
• विषय: Social & cultural history; Social History, History, Loneliness, History of Loss
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

सारांश

This chapter takes as its subject the framing of loneliness in post-war Britain as a distinctly modern crisis with a particular temporal resonance and urgency. It reflects on how time and temporality were central to newspaper discussions of loneliness as an urgent social problem in the late 1950s and early 1960s, produced by specific cultural, technological, ideological, and environmental contexts supposedly unique to mid-century modernity. Although predominantly a history of how loneliness was represented and thought of in post-war Britain, it is also a contemporary history of similar narratives of crisis, emergency, and epidemic in the twenty-first century; what these narratives mean for historical engagements with loneliness; and what historical engagements with loneliness mean for them.

भौतिक वर्णन

1 electronic resource (14 p.)

आईएसबीएन

9780429331848-13
9780367355081
9781032437576

अभिगमन

Open Access