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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Łaszkiewicz, Weronika, editor.

Maszewski, Zbigniew, editor.

Partyka, Jacek, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

Nostalgia in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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-

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9211-4

OCLC:

948734444