https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk Research on Pathologies of Solitude, 18th – 21st century Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.8 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/podcasts/#comment-57 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:13:55 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?page_id=1689#comment-57 […] Yes, I know – more solitude. You might be sensing a theme here! I loved this whole series, but this episode and its discussion of Emily Dickinson and the ‘Graveyard Poets’ particularly captured me. I pondered the ideas this raised about the darker side of being alone for days afterwards. You can listen here. […]

]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/the-unexpected-solace-of-lockdown/#comment-56 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:38:12 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=1557#comment-56 […] Well, I’ve been living alone throughout lockdown, with very little social contact, and I’ve been alright. More than alright in fact. I’ve felt incredibly content and comfortable in my solitude. I’ve not been lonely, I’ve not got bored. There are also others who have enjoyed being alone during lockdown. […]

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]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/watching-when-one-is-alone-with-oneself-solitude-and-the-dog/#comment-54 Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:23:43 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=1356#comment-54 […] Scenes of Joy and Rest / To this dark Den, where Sickness toss’d alway’. Thomas Laqueur wrote a blog for our ‘Solitude and COVID-19’ series on dogs as a guard against cosmic loneliness. As my […]

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]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/self-isolation-as-imprisonment/#comment-42 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:10:17 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=1013#comment-42 […] exile in Canada who in the 1980s spent eight years in a Tehran prison, two in solitary confinement. Sakhi has blogged about the emotional connections that allowed her to survive those years. Locked down recently in […]

]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/#comment-41 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:35:50 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=898#comment-41 […] problems; older individuals in care houses: right here now we have a loneliness disaster. The historian of loneliness Fred Cooper warns that for a lot of Britons Covid-19 is an “existential risk”, pitching them into lethal isolation. […]

]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/#comment-38 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:55:07 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=898#comment-38 […] psychologiques, les personnes âgées dans les maisons de soins: nous avons ici une solitude crise. L’historien de la solitude Fred Cooper avertit que de nombreux Britanniques Covid-19 est une “menace existentielle”, tangage dans mortel de […]

]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/#comment-37 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:35:02 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=898#comment-37 […] those with psychological disorders; older people in care homes: here we have a loneliness crisis. The historian of loneliness Fred Cooper warns that for many Britons Covid-19 is an “existential threat”, pitching them into deadly isolation. Cut […]

]]> https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/blog/covid-19-and-the-loneliness-crisis/#comment-36 Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:21:41 +0000 https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/?p=898#comment-36 […] psychological issues; older folks in care houses: right here we’ve a loneliness disaster. The historian of loneliness Fred Cooper warns that for a lot of Britons Covid-19 is an “existential risk”, pitching them into lethal isolation. […]

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