Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: January 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813925981
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; English literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Nostalgia; Nostalgia in literature
Description: "In Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917, Linda M. Austin traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Offering a paradigm for and analysis of nostalgic memory as it operates in various attempts to reenact the past, Austin explains both the early and the modern understanding of this phenomenon." "For students and scholars interested in the Victorian era as well as in Romanticism and modernism, Nostalgia in Transition provides a well-rounded perspective on how and why our understanding of nostalgia has changed over time."--BOOK JACKET.