Title
- Early Modern Cultural Studies
Attribution
Harold WeberPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2008Availability
Description
This study contributes to the current pursuit?in both literary studies and the social sciences?of histories of memory in Western culture, employing current scholarship from the social and natural sciences to delineate the nature of modern memory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Memory
- Memory in literature
- English literature — Early modern, 1500-1700 — History and criticism
- English literature — 18th century — History and criticism
- Memorialization — England — History — 17th century
- Memorialization — England — History — 18th century
- Printing — Social aspects — England
- Authorship — Social aspects
Contents
- 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 dulness
- "Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book for ever!": 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
ISBN
- 9780230607910
- 0230607918
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