Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction......Page 16 Memory: cultural constructions in literature, science and history......Page 28 Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory......Page 30 Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory......Page 45 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel......Page 61 The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative......Page 75 Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy......Page 95 Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot......Page 113 Writing and remembering: elegy, memorial, rhyme......Page 132 Gender and memory in post-Revolutionary women's writing......Page 134 Re-membering: memory, posterity and the memorial poem......Page 147 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek Memorial......Page 162 Memory enstructured: the case of Memorial Hall......Page 175 Memorials of the Tennysons......Page 190 Rhyming as resurrection......Page 204 Notes......Page 223 Name index......Page 244 Subject index......Page 248 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 historyMemory 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. History and memory intersect in various, complicated ways throughout the nineteenth century, especially in the rise of autobiographical discourses, but I wish to distinguish a particularly volatile, gendered form of this intersection. 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 Edited By Matthew Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, And Sally Shuttleworth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.