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What Nostalgia Was - 9780226492803

Description: What Nostalgia WasWar, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion Author(s): Thomas Dodman Format: Hardback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226492803, 978-0226492803 Synopsis Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From there, he traces its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, as French soldiers far from home were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Nostalgia then gradually transformed from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, one that connected to Romantic notions of the aesthetic pleasure of suffering. But the decisive shift towards a benign emotion occurred in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about excessive creolization came to view a moderate homesickness as salutary. An afterword reflects on how the history of nostalgia can help us understand the transformations of the modern world, rounding out a surprising, fascinating tour through the history of a durable idea.

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Book Title: What Nostalgia Was

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press

Publication Year: 2018

Subject: History

Item Height: 239 mm

Item Weight: 498 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Thomas Dodman

Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Item Width: 165 mm

Format: Hardcover

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