Nostalgia in the Early Modern World - Memory, Temporality, and Emotion (Hardcover)

How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual, visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry: memory, temporality, and emotion. The contributors deploy nostalgia as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2023
Editors:	Harriet Lyon • Alexandra M Walsham
Contributors:	Hannah Skoda • Alisa van de Haar • Theo Lap • Frederick Smith • Niccolò Fattori • Raingard Esser • Antonio Urquízar-Herrera • Enrique Soria Mesa
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-78327-769-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN:	1-78327-769-6
Barcode:	9781783277698

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