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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455508303321

Titolo

Memory and memorials, 1789-1914 : literary and cultural perspectives / / edited by Matthew Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, and Sally Shuttleworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58300-1

1-280-40378-0

0-203-46664-0

0-203-24727-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative ; ; v.No.5

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellMatthew (Matthew J. B.)

LabbeJacqueline M. <1965->

ShuttleworthSally <1952->

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Autobiographical memory in literature

Memory in literature

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-228) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Memory: cultural constructions in literature, science and history; Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory; Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory; 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel; The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative; Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy; Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot; Writing and remembering: elegy, memorial, rhyme

Gender and memory in post-Revolutionary women's writingRe-



membering: memory, posterity and the memorial poem; 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek Memorial; Memory enstructured: the case of Memorial Hall; Memorials of the Tennysons; Rhyming as resurrection; Notes; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.