Synopsis
'Absorbing' - The Guardian
'Illuminating' - Vogue
'Fascinating' - Pandora Sykes
In Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians...
Details
20 March 2025272 pages
9781529091397Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This absorbing exploration of nostalgia raises questions about its slippery nature, and shows how it has been chillingly deployed in politics, from the cold war to TrumpismGuardian
Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide. Her prose is fluent but not flashy . . . She carries weighty learning lightly – embracing everything relevant, from dubious neuroscience to cod sociology.'The Telegraph
Beautifully compact, wide-ranging and enjoyableTLS
IlluminatingVogue
