Nostalgia

<p><b>'Absorbing' - <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Arnold-Forster is a shrewd critic and delightful guide . . . She carries weighty learning lightly &ndash; embracing everything relevant, from dubious neuroscience to cod sociology.' -<i> The Telegraph</i></b><br><br>In <i>Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion</i>, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from its first identification in 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).<br><br>Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. It is one of the many ways we communicate a desire for the p