Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

Literary and Cultural Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-22976-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Matthew

Labbe, Jaqueline M

Shuttleworth, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Gedächtnis
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth