Nostalgia and Homesickness in US History
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2023-09
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Matt, Susan
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This lecture examines how homesickness and nostalgia, once deadly emotions which were taken seriously, came in the 20th century to be seen as trivial, childish feelings that signaled immaturity and maladjustment. This transformation reveals much about the history of these feelings and also illustrates how Americans gradually learned the emotional style of individualism.
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Nostalgia