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Download or read book What Nostalgia Was written by Thomas Dodman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From there, Dodman traces its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, as French soldiers far from home were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Nostalgia then gradually transformed from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, one that encompassed Romantic notions of the aesthetic pleasure of suffering. But the decisive shift toward its contemporary meaning occurred in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about racial and cultural mixing came to view moderate homesickness as salutary. An afterword reflects on how the history of nostalgia can help us understand the transformations of the modern world, rounding out a surprising, fascinating tour through the history of a durable idea.

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Download or read book Letters from a Ballet master written by Arthur Saint-Léon and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Saint-Leon, the choreographer of Coppélia, was an indefatigable and articulate letter writer. This collection, translated and edited by Ivor Guest, dates mostly from the 1860s, when Saint-Leon dominated the ballet in both Paris and St. Petersburg, and casts new light on the man and his work.

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