Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / Helmut Illbruck.

Heimweh : Studien zur Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte einer tödlichen Krankheit / Simon Bunke.

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Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / Helmut Illbruck.

Heimweh : Studien zur Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte einer tödlichen Krankheit / Simon Bunke.