How Long to Read Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France

How Long Does it Take to Read Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 48 minutes to read Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France by Thomas W. Dodman

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Description

This dissertation traces the remarkable trajectory of a now-forgotten and quite lethal disease: nostalgia. From the coining of the term in 1688 to its unceremonious removal from medical taxonomies two centuries later, nostalgia was indeed a severe clinical condition, a "passion of the soul" identified colloquially as homesickness and akin to present-day forms of depression. It affected soldiers in particular and although common to all western countries was deemed particularly dangerous by the French, who grappled with its lethal effects from the outbreak of the Revolutionary wars to the laborious conquest of colonial Algeria in the mid-nineteenth century. At the height of its importance in the early 1800s nostalgia was the object of heated debates in medical circles. Within a few decades, however, physicians increasingly came to see it as an essentially benign emotional inclination and nostalgia became an indulgent leitmotif for young poets brimming with romantic angst. By the end of the century, French doctors had all but forgotten about the condition, leaving behind a term hollowed out of its original pathological meaning but promised to an illustrious afterlife as a general cultural category. Since then, and following the consecrated quip, nostalgia truly is no longer what it used to be.

How long is Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France?

Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France by Thomas W. Dodman is 516 pages long, and a total of 132,096 words.

This makes it 174% the length of the average book. It also has 161% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 1 minute to read Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France aloud.

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Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary France is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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