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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Il disertore svizzero, ovvero, La nostalgia
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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What Nostalgia Was
Author: Thomas Dodman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649313X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From there, Dodman traces its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, as French soldiers far from home were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Nostalgia then gradually transformed from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, one that encompassed Romantic notions of the aesthetic pleasure of suffering. But the decisive shift toward its contemporary meaning occurred in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about racial and cultural mixing came to view moderate homesickness as salutary. An afterword reflects on how the history of nostalgia can help us understand the transformations of the modern world, rounding out a surprising, fascinating tour through the history of a durable idea.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649313X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student invented the new diagnosis, modeled on prevailing notions of melancholy. From there, Dodman traces its spread through the European republic of letters and into Napoleon's armies, as French soldiers far from home were diagnosed and treated for the disease. Nostalgia then gradually transformed from a medical term to a more expansive cultural concept, one that encompassed Romantic notions of the aesthetic pleasure of suffering. But the decisive shift toward its contemporary meaning occurred in the colonies, where Frenchmen worried about racial and cultural mixing came to view moderate homesickness as salutary. An afterword reflects on how the history of nostalgia can help us understand the transformations of the modern world, rounding out a surprising, fascinating tour through the history of a durable idea.
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of Music
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Felice Romani
Author: Andrea Sommariva
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : it
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : it
Pages : 384
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977575
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977575
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Viking Opera Guide
Author: Amanda Holden
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
The book, which was published early this year and is available unbundled from the CD-ROM for $69.95, contains information on more than 800 composers and examines some 1,500 operas in detail. Each composer's musical career is outlined, with an assessment of his or her overall contribution to opera. Opera entries include cast lists and orchestral forces, a commentary on the background of the work, a synopsis of the plot, and a musical analysis identifying musical highlights and points of interest. Recording and edition information is included. For those who don't like to turn pages, prefer to read from the screen, or just like the click-click of the mouse, the CD-ROM provides computer access via Windows to the information and pictures (small black and whites) of the book. The CD-ROM holds some enhancements: notably, three hours of music excerpts (unheard by this reviewer who lacks the needed 16-bit sound card; some, according to the press release, are as long as three to five minutes). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
The book, which was published early this year and is available unbundled from the CD-ROM for $69.95, contains information on more than 800 composers and examines some 1,500 operas in detail. Each composer's musical career is outlined, with an assessment of his or her overall contribution to opera. Opera entries include cast lists and orchestral forces, a commentary on the background of the work, a synopsis of the plot, and a musical analysis identifying musical highlights and points of interest. Recording and edition information is included. For those who don't like to turn pages, prefer to read from the screen, or just like the click-click of the mouse, the CD-ROM provides computer access via Windows to the information and pictures (small black and whites) of the book. The CD-ROM holds some enhancements: notably, three hours of music excerpts (unheard by this reviewer who lacks the needed 16-bit sound card; some, according to the press release, are as long as three to five minutes). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980
Author: British Library. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Forests of Norbio
Author: Giuseppe Dessì
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description