Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural PerspectivesMatthew J. B. Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth 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. |
Contents
cultural constructions in literature | 13 |
Scotts The Heart of Midlothian and | 30 |
embodied memory | 46 |
old age and memory | 60 |
Ruskin | 80 |
memory from Eliot to Eliot | 98 |
PART II | 117 |
memory posterity and | 132 |
Henry Adams and | 147 |
the case of Memorial Hall | 160 |
Memorials of the Tennysons | 175 |
Rhyming as resurrection | 189 |
Notes | 208 |
Name index | 229 |
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