1st Edition
Memory and Memorials From the French Revolution to World War One
By Jacqueline M. Labbe
Copyright 2000
254 Pages
by
Routledge
237 Pages
by
Routledge
237 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the "long" nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in this era of turbulent social change. Through investigation of science, literature, history and the visual arts, the authors explore theories of memory and the cultural and literary resonances of memorializing.Drawing on the work of many of the most... Read more
Introduction; I: Memory Cultural constructions in literature, science and history; 1: Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory; 2: Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory; 3: ‘The malady of thought’ Embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel; 4: The unquiet limit Old age and memory in Victorian narrative; 5: Memory through the looking glass; 6: Twisting Memory from Eliot to Eliot; II: Writing and remembering; 7: Gender and memory in post-Revolutionary women’s writing; 8: Re-membering; 9: ‘All that it had to say’; 10: Memory enstructured; 11: Memorials of the Tennysons; 12: Rhyming as resurrection
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