1st Edition
The Backward Look Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920
By Angelica Goodden
Copyright 2000
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or "scientific" memory and emotional or spiritual recollection in a series of major writers from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Her study focuses on the 18th century, where the interplay between... Read more
Introduction 1 Breaking the Mould 2 Eighteenth-Century Histoires 3 Recording and Rewriting 4 Diderot: The Limits of Experience 5 Rousseau: Person and Memory 6 The Soul and the Self , Conclusion
Biography
Angelica Goodden
