The value of solitude
Subtitle: the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography
By: John D. Barbour.
Series: Studies in religion and culture; Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; Brand: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Solitude; Solitude -- Religious aspects; Autobiography -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Christian solitude; title: Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions; title: The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon; title: Rousseau's myth of solitude in reveries of the solitary walker; title: Thoreau at Walden : soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time; title: Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience; title: Thomas Merton and solitude : the door to solitude opens only from the inside; title: Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude; title: Conclusion: The value of solitude.