Yesterday : a new history of nostalgia /

"Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becker, Tobias (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.7941376
Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting: The Meanings of Nostalgia
  • Regressing: The Politics of Nostalgia
  • Reviving: The Past in Popular Culture
  • Reliving: The History Boom.