TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barbour,John D.
TI  - The value of solitude: the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography 
T2  - Studies in religion and culture
SN  - 0813922887 (alk. paper)
AV  - BJ1499.S65 B37 2004
U1  - 128/.4 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Solitude
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Autobiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index; 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
ER  -