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NOSTALGIA

A HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS EMOTION

AGNES ARNOLD-FORSTER

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Publisher:
PICADOR
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-1-5290-9139-7
Pages:
288
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'Absorbing' - The Guardian
'Illuminating' - Vogue
'Fascinating' - Pandora Sykes

In Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies).

It is a fascinating, compelling story of a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is also a clear-eyed analysis of what we are doing now, how we feel about it and what we might want to change about the world we live in.

'Beautifully compact, wide-ranging and enjoyable' - TLS

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