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Solitude and American studies. Ina Bergmann: Cultures of solitude: reflections on loneliness, limitation, and liberation in the USA -- Early solitude: language, body, and gender. Svend Erik Larsen: Alone, without a guide: solitude as a literary and cultural paradox -- Kevin l. Cope: The enigmatic and the ecological: American late enlightenment hermits and the pursuit of, in addition to happiness, permanence -- Coby Dowdell: The luxury of solitude: conduct, domestic deliberation, and the eighteenth-century female recluse -- Solitude in the nineteenth century: gender, politics, and poetics. Ina Bergmann: Away to solitude, to freedom, to desolation: hermits and recluses in Julia Ward Howe's The hermaphrodite -- Margaretta M. Lovell: Thoreau and the landscapes of solitude: painted epiphanies in undomesticated nature -- Hélène Quanquin: T¿â¿¿the world to each other: the joint politics of isolation and reform among Garrisonian abolitionists -- Solitude from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: society, spirituality, and religion. Ira J. Cohen: Three types of deep solitude: religious quests, aesthetic retreats, and withdrawals due to personal distress -- Kevin Lewis: American lonesome: our native sense of otherness -- Solitude in the twentieth century: space, gender, and ethnicity. Randall Roorda: A mind is the cabin: substance and success in post-Thoreauvian second homes -- Nassim Winnie Balestrini: Socially constructed selfhood: Emily Dickinson in full-cast and single-actor plays -- Jochen Achilles: Changing cultures of solitude: reclusiveness in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Solitude from the twentieth to the twenty-first century: space, identity, and pathology. Clare Hayes-Brady: It's what we have in common, this aloneness: solitude, communality, and the self in the writing of David Foster Wallace -- Rüdiger Heinze: Alone in the crowd: urban recluses in US-American film -- Solitude today: technology, community, and identity. Stefan Hippler: Solitude in the digital age: privacy, aloneness, and withdrawal in Dave Eggers' The circle -- Scott Slovic: Going away to the wilderness for solitude . . . and community: ecoambiguity, the engaged pastoral, and the semester in the wild experience -- Robert J. Coplan and Julie C. Bowker: Should we be left alone? psychological perspectives on the implications of seeking solitude
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