{"product_id":"nostalgia-in-transition-1780-1917-hardcover","title":"Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda M. Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferred to long ago as a \"disease\" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet what caused this shift in our collective understanding of the term? In \u003ci\u003eNostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Beginning with an account of nostalgia's transformation from an acute form of melancholia and homesickness into elegiac expression and idyllic representation, Austin goes on to examine an array of texts, from poetic meditations on nostalgia in the first half of the nineteenth century to the popular adult souvenirs of childhood in the second half. She shows how, in novels by Hardy; in elegies and lyrics by Arnold, Tennyson, and Emily Bront ; in illustrations by Kate Greenaway and Helen Allingham; and in late Victorian cultural histories of the cottage, nostalgia acts as a collective, rather than an individual reenactment of an invented, rather than a remembered, past or place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor students and scholars interested in the Victorian era, as well as in Romanticism and modernism, \u003ci\u003eNostalgia in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e provides a well-rounded perspective on how and why our understanding of nostalgia has changed over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda M. Austin is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.22 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42154160423047,"sku":"9780813925981","price":93.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/faa6d2fac26eaf7a933373a9725ebb96.webp?v=1733227073","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/nostalgia-in-transition-1780-1917-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}