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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Postcolonial nostalgias Postcolonial nostalgias Dennis Walder "This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition -- nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well … OL15616438W
Reclaiming nostalgia Reclaiming nostalgia Jennifer K. Ladino Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In "Reclaiming Nostalgia, " Jennifer … OL16704940W
Paradise lost Paradise lost David S. Brown Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners af… OL20058430W
The future of nostalgia The future of nostalgia Svetlana Boym "Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?"… OL3485100W