Solitude
[ Feelings and Emotions ]
… century. There was no vocabulary for loneliness in this period, but solitude was a state often associated with
melancholy and thus frequently employed in a negative sense. A range of eighteenth-century writers warned about the … Concepts > Feelings and Emotions Keywords loneliness Religion Social relations Conversation Gender roles Politeness
melancholy privacy In 1711 Joseph Addison spoke of his vision for his new periodical, The Spectator . In his desire to … affect spiritual, mental, and physical health. The frontispiece to Robert Burton’s seminal work, The Anatomy of
Melancholy (1621), explicitly linked solitude and
melancholy, with a visual depiction of solitude. Here, solitude was …