Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653-1759

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60791-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Invention of Modern Memory
'Building Castles in the Air': Margaret Cavendish and the Anxieties of Monumentality
'A Space for Narration': Milton and the Politics of Collective Memory
'Oh grant an honest Fame, or grant me none!': The Ethics of Memorialization in Pope's Archives of Dullness
'Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book forever!': Paper and Permanence in Richardson's Clarissa
Conclusion: From the 'Garbage Heap' of Memory to the Cyborg: The Exhaustion and Revitalization of Memory in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Über Autor(innen)

HAROLD M. WEBER is Professor of English, University of Alabama, USA.