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Memory and memorials, 1789-1914 : literary and cultural perspectives / edited by Matthew Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, and Sally Shuttleworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.)
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
- Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative ; v.No.5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Literature and history--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and history.
- Autobiographical memory in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Memory: cultural constructions in literature, science and history; Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory; Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory; 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel; The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative; Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy; Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot; Writing and remembering: elegy, memorial, rhyme
- Gender and memory in post-Revolutionary women's writingRe-membering: memory, posterity and the memorial poem; 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek Memorial; Memory enstructured: the case of Memorial Hall; Memorials of the Tennysons; Rhyming as resurrection; Notes; Name index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-228) and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-58299-4
- 1-134-58300-1
- 1-280-40378-0
- 0-203-46664-0
- 0-203-24727-2
- 9780203466643
- OCLC:
- 560006144
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