Campbell / Labbe / Shuttleworth Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

Literary and Cultural Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-58299-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Matthew

Labbe, Jaqueline M.

Shuttleworth, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe and Sally Shuttleworth

Part One. Memory: Cultural Constructions in Literature, Science and History

1. Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory Greg Kucich

2. Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory Catherine A. Jones

3. 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel Sally Shuttleworth

4. The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative Helen Small

5. Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy Philip Davis

6. Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot Rick Rylance

Part Two: Writing and Remembering: Elegy, Memorial, Rhyme

7. Gender and memory in post-revolutionary women's writing Gary Kelly

8. Re-membering: memory, posterity, and the memorial poem Jacqueline M. Labbe

9. 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek memorial Duco van Oostrum

10. Memory enstructured - the case of memorial hall Clyde Binfield

11. Memorials of the Tennysons Matthew Campbell

12. Rhyming as resurrection Gillian Beer