Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative)

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