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

by Matthew Campbell (Editor), Jaqueline M. Labbe (Editor), Sally Shuttleworth (Editor)

Overview

Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature, history and science the authors explore the theme of memory as a tool of social progression. This book offers a fresh theoretical understanding of the period and a wealth of empirical material of use to the historian, literature student or social psychologist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415758314
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2014
Series:	Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth

Table of Contents

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