Moira Yeldon

An important trope in Romanticism, “nostalgia” has been described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy and a sentimentality for the past, typically for a time or place with happy personal associations.

Derived from a Greek word meaning “homecoming”, it has also been used to describe “sorrow” or “despair”. The term nostalgia was also coined by a medical student to describe the anxieties disp