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| Other authors / contributors: | Rogers, Elizabeth, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781443816472
1443816477
1443889067
9781443889063
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| Notes: | Based on a conference held by English postgraduate students at the University of Dundee in June 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9, 2017).
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| Summary: | This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term 'The Golden Age'. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term 'Golden Age' typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, a.
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