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Examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. This book traces the history of the nostalgia poem.

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 01/10/2006
      ISBN13: 9780874139457, 978-0874139457
      ISBN10: 0874139457

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      Book Synopsis
      Examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. This book traces the history of the nostalgia poem.

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