ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Memory
chapter 4|20 pages
The unquiet limit: old age and memory in
Old age and memory in Victorian narrative
part |2 pages
PART II Writing and remembering: elegy, memorial, rhyme
chapter 8|15 pages
Re-membering: memory, posterity and the memorial poem
Memory, posterity, and the memorial poem
chapter 9|13 pages
‘All that it had to say’: Henry Adams and the
Henry Adams and the Rock Creek Memorial