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Nostalgia

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'A fascinating and rigorous debunking of everything I thought I knew about nostalgia' - Pandora Sykes

'Absorbing' - Guardian

'Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide . . . She carries weighty learning lightly – embracing everything relevant, from dubious neuroscience to cod sociology.' - The Telegraph


In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from its first identification in seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529091366
SKU
9781529091366
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-4

About Agnes Arnold-Forster
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster is a historian at the University of Edinburgh. She has also worked at McGill University, King's College London, UCL, and at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of two academic books, one about cancer and the other about surgery, and has written widely for academic, medical ... Read more

Reviews for Nostalgia
This absorbing exploration of nostalgia raises questions about its slippery nature, and shows how it has been chillingly deployed in politics, from the cold war to Trumpism
Guardian
Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide. Her prose is fluent but not flashy...She carries weighty learning lightly – embracing everything relevant, from dubious neuroscience to cod sociology.'
... Read more

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