How Long to Read Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917

How Long Does it Take to Read Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 by Linda Marilyn Austin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet what caused this shift in our collective understanding of the term? In Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917, Linda M. Austin traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Offering a paradigm for and analysis of nostalgic memory as it operates in various attempts to reenact the past, Austin explains both the early and the modern understanding of this phenomenon. Beginning with an account of nostalgia’s transformation from an acute form of melancholia and homesickness into elegiac expression and idyllic representation, Austin goes on to examine an array of texts, from poetic meditations on nostalgia in the first half of the nineteenth century to the popular adult souvenirs of childhood in the second half. She shows how, in novels by Hardy; in elegies and lyrics by Arnold, Tennyson, and Emily Brontë; in illustrations by Kate Greenaway and Helen Allingham; and in late Victorian cultural histories of the cottage, nostalgia acts as a collective, rather than an individual reenactment of an invented, rather than a remembered, past or place. For students and scholars interested in the Victorian era, as well as in Romanticism and modernism, Nostalgia in Transition provides a well-rounded perspective on how and why our understanding of nostalgia has changed over time.

How long is Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917?

Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 by Linda Marilyn Austin is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 aloud.

What Reading Level is Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917?

Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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