This interdisciplinary collection of twelve essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of loneliness in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources. Contrary to current scholarly consensus that loneliness in Britain was understood as an emotion from the late eighteenth century, only beginning to emerge in its literary form in the writings of the Romantic poets, the contributors in this volume argue that early modern people were capable of complex and conflicting feelings of social and emotional isolation which were expressed in a wide range of writings. Moreover, in a world ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, these products of loneliness continue to resonate poignantly with humanity today.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Is Early Modern Loneliness an
Anachronism? .- Chapter 2 Anxia Bellerophontis: Bellerophon and Loneliness
from Homer to Early Modernity.
Chapter 3 But she to be a Quene, and creuely
handeled as was never sene: Perspectives on Anne Boleyns Loneliness in the
Tower of London.
Chapter 4 A thowsond mylys a sonder: Catholic Exiles from
Tudor England and the Ambiguities of Loneliness.
Chapter 5 Bear Humanly the
Human Lot: Jan Kochanowski and Seeking Catharsis Alone in Early Modern
Poland.- Chapter 6 It is not good that the man should be alone: Marriage,
Loneliness, and the Clergy in Early Modern England.
Chapter 7 The Loneliness
of the Long-Distance Believer: Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Religious
Poetry in English.
Chapter 8 A Lasting Moniment to Loneliness: Involuntary
Retirement and Survival through the Psalm Translations of Sir Thomas
Fairfax.
Chapter 9 Another time, in a Lowering and sad Evening, being alone
in the field: Revising Loneliness in the Meditative Writing of
ThomasTraherne and Elizabeth Delaval.
Chapter 10 William Penns Some Fruits
of Solitude: Public Disgrace and Private Consolation.-Chapter 11 The
Loneliness of Shakespeares Sonnets, Past and Present.-12 Afterword.
Hannah Yip is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research interests centre on the cultural and emotional lives of clergymen in the English Reformation. She has held Fellowships at the Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the John Rylands Library.
Thomas Clifton PhD MA PGCE (PCET) is a Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, UK. Thomas completed an AHRC-funded PhD on Textual Practices in Meditative Writing, 16611678 at the University of Birmingham and an MA in early modern literature at Bangor University. Thomass research interests include dialogical thought processes in meditative, reflective, and self-writing, historically and contemporarily, and the fluidity of genre in the early modern period.
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