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Memory, print, and gender in England, 1653-1759
- Title
- Memory, print, and gender in England, 1653-1759 / Harold Weber.
- Author
- Weber, Harold.
- Publication
- New York, NY ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR438.M44 W43 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 262 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Early modern cultural studies
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index.
- 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 (hbk.)
- 0230607918 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- ocn212328128
- SCSB-14533477
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library