Table of Contents
1 Christian solitude 11
2 Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions 32
3 The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon 43
4 Rousseau's myth of solitude in Reveries of the solitary walker 81
5 Thoreau at Walden : "soliloquinzing and talking to all the universe at the same time" 105
6 Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience 129
7 Thomas Merton and solitude : "the door to solitude opens only from the inside" 160
8 Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude 185
Conclusion : the value of solitude 199
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