Longing : narratives of nostalgia in the British novel, 1740-1890

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Longing : narratives of nostalgia in the British novel, 1740-1890

Title remainder

narratives of nostalgia in the British novel, 1740-1890

Statement of responsibility

Tamara S. Wagner

Creator

• Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-
• Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-

Subject

• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Autobiographical memory in literature
• Nostalgia in literature
• Memory in literature
• English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

• "Nostalgia has been one of the most powerful discourses in the shaping of Western modernity, and a formative influence on the novel genre. Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 casts a different light on the origins and development of nostalgia by taking a close look at its role and representation in the British novel. It provides new insight into the ways in which nostalgia was transformed from a clinical condition into a celebrated emotional experience in late eighteenth-century novels of sensibility, was ridiculed after the genre's heyday, and became an enjoyed way of remembering in mid-Victorian fiction before it had to be defended against new pathologies of both longing and memory at the fin de siecle
• By revealing the origins of common misunderstandings about nostalgia, this book aims, moreover, to show that it creatively fosters a personal and imaginative memory."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography