Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… Before His Cave’, B1976.1.32, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, ca. 1805. Résumé How individuals managed solitude, used their time alone productively, and made the transition between solitude and sociability in their daily lives were topics continuously addressed in writings from the long-eighteenth 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 …
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