The value of solitude : the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography - Barbour, John D. (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004)
Christian solitude -- Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions -- The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon -- Rousseau's myth of solitude in reveries of the solitary walker -- Thoreau at Walden : soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time -- Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience -- Thomas Merton and solitude : the door to solitude opens only from the inside -- Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude -- Conclusion: The value of solitude.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.
Keywords: Solitude; Solitude -- Religious aspects; Autobiography -- Religious aspects