Weber Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653-1759

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61448-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Dullness
'Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book forever!': 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

Über Autor(innen)

HAROLD M. WEBER is Professor of English, University of Alabama, USA.