Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Nostalgia WasCondition: NewSubtitle: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly EmotionAuthor: Thomas DodmanFormat: HardbackEAN: 9780226492803ISBN: 9780226492803Publisher: University of Chicago PressGenre: HistoryRelease Date: 01/10/2018Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 24mmItem Length: 17mmItem Width: 2mmItem Weight: 510gBook Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Nostalgia Was
Title: What Nostalgia Was
Subtitle: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
EAN: 9780226492803
ISBN: 9780226492803
Genre: History
Release Date: 01/10/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Europe / France, Popular Culture, Modern / 19th Century, History, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History, Medical
Author: Thomas Dodman
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning Ser.
Format: Hardcover
