Nostalgia

Agnes Arnold-Forster

Nostalgia
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 June 2025
Pages
272
ISBN
9781529091397

Nostalgia

Agnes Arnold-Forster

'Absorbing' - The Guardian

'Illuminating' - Vogue

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 alike to sell us goods and policies).

It is a fascinating, compelling story of a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is also a clear-eyed analysis of what we are doing now, how we feel about it and what we might want to change about the world we live in.

'Arnold-Forster belongs to that valuable non-jargon-spouting breed of academic who is capable of explaining complex ideas in simple language.' - The Times

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