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An engaging discussion of how the developments of the nineteenth-century communications revolution changed the ways in which writers in the United States came to understand the categories of solitude and loneliness in the middle decades of the century. --Les Harrison, author of The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman In its reclamation of solitude as a productive state of being, Modernizing Solitude joins recent writing that argues for a degree of off-the-grid, more meditative existence to curb social media addiction. As such, it would appeal to those who seek models of moderation, or who are at least curious about the ways in which historical figures negotiated their media consumption in order to remain productive individuals. --John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes

In its reclamation of solitude as a productive state of being, Modernizing Solitude joins recent writing that argues for a degree of off-the-grid, more meditative existence to curb social media addiction. As such, it would appeal to those who seek models of moderation, or who are at least curious about the ways in which historical figures negotiated their media consumption in order to remain productive individuals. --John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes An engaging discussion of how the developments of the nineteenth-century communications revolution changed the ways in which writers in the United States came to understand the categories of solitude and loneliness in the middle decades of the century. --Les Harrison, author of The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman

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Yoshiaki Furui is an associate professor of English at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He has published scholarship in Journal of American Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

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