Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415229760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 252 str.

Matthew Campbell; Jacqueline M. Labbe; Sally Shuttleworth

Opis

This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.

Spis treści

Introduction Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe and Sally ShuttleworthPart One. Memory: Cultural Constructions in Literature, Science and History 1. Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory Greg Kucich2. Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory Catherine A. Jones3. 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel Sally Shuttleworth4. The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative Helen Small5. Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy Philip Davis6. Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot Rick RylancePart Two: Writing and Remembering: Elegy, Memorial, Rhyme 7. Gender and memory in post-revolutionary women's writing Gary Kelly8. Re-membering: memory, posterity, and the memorial poem Jacqueline M. Labbe9. 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek memorial Duco van Oostrum10. Memory enstructured - the case of memorial hall Clyde Binfield11. Memorials of the Tennysons Matthew Campbell12. Rhyming as resurrection Gillian Beer

O autorze

Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth