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Focusing on the 'long' nineteenth century, 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 science, literature and history the authors explore the theme of memory as a tool of social progression, a tool that worked through the collective act of memorialising. The book is arranged around two key sets of ideas. The first is concerned with understanding and reconstructing memory as a cultural and social phenomenon. The second part focuses on memory as a written and architectural device. Together they cover topics as diverse as: gender and memory the importance of accounts of memory in Victorian psychology for Victorian fiction the Memorial Hall and Nonconformist Church history Memory and Memorials 1789-1914 employs a range of new and influential interdisciplinary methodologies. It offers both a fresh theoretical understanding of the period, and a wealth of empirical material of use to the historian, literature student or social psychologist.

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Author:   Matthew Campbell ,  Jaqueline M. Labbe ,  Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No.5
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415229760

ISBN 10:   0415229766
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   25 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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