Title Dwelling in days foregone : nostalgia in American literature and culture / edited by Weronika Łaszkiewicz, Zbigniew Maszewski and Jacek Partyka

Published Newcastle up on Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Summary This volume brings together papers that examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and/or expressions of nostalgia. Inspired by Svetlana Boym's seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the authors of the sixteen chapters demonstrate that this sentiment proves to be a useful key in the process, opening up new interpretive vistas and enabling new critical insights. The experience that comes under scrutiny in these texts is informed by the fundamental division into a certain "present," which is the domain of insatiability, and a certain "past" - the locus of at- Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- History and criticism. Nostalgia in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Nostalgia in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Łaszkiewicz, Weronika Maszewski, Zbigniew Partyka, Jacek ISBN 9781443892117 1443892114

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