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Brought to you by Penguin. A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historian What’s in a face? The face is one of our quintessential features and is the only part of the body where all the senses come together: smell, taste...

Despite 21st-century fears of an "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the 18th century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not a historical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist.