![]() This quite apart from the unassailable fact that war as a category of explanation for the eighteenth century possesses a vast historiography. For these reasons it is not excessive to be self-reflective about the convergence before plunging into war and peace as we construe them today and in relation to an imagined eighteenth century. 4 And our ambivalence reveals more about us and our anxieties at the end of the twentieth century -especially our presentism- than the Enlightenment status of nostalgia as a special condition of homesick soldiers. For another, we remain ambivalent about current versions of nostalgia despite our almost universal ignorance today of its origins and early development. For one thing, we have utterly lost track of nostalgia’s original sense and configuration: a malady of the eighteenth century that has almost disappeared from popular sensibility today although it endures in pockets among those with longer historical memories. 5 See supra note 2, Davis, Yearning for Yesterday 2.ĥCurrent it was but the conjunction of nostalgia and history is far more complex than appears.Chase, The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia (Manchester: MUP, 1989), amplify th (.) What can the cartoon have signified when it first appeared in a Russian newspaper unnamed by the Times, and why was it being reprinted now? It originated in Russia and was simultaneously reprinted in America and Britain with this intriguing caption that was syndicated worldwide and read as follows: Nothing had recently occurred to precipitate its appearance: no international tension between the Russians and English, other Europeans or even other Westerners no recent outbreak of war, no sudden anti-Soviet prejudice, and the Berlin wall had long since been toppled in 1989. 2ģI begin with a cartoon that appeared in the London Times on November 20, 1994. What I say has resonance for later periods, those after the Napoleonic wars, and even the various Franco-Prussian and Franco-Germanic wars, but my main concern is to establish the seemingly unholy alliance of malady and social type, specially in this case, the alliance of nostalgia and the adventurer. The key signposts are nostalgia and adventure and the rhetorics and languages that attached to them this in an attempt to provide greater resonance to the war and peace that constitutes the subject of this volume. ![]() But I also attempt to enlarge the historical role of “adventure” in the general matrix of thought about war in the early modem period. My discussion commences with disease: an accurate barometer of cultural representation and, in this case, the birth of a malady once known as nostalgia. ![]() “Medical Dissertations on Nostalgia by Johannes Hofer, 1688” B (.)ĢThe reluctance is patent in our generation despite the work of the new historians and critics of nationhood and endures into the late 1990s. ![]()
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