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Author:

Weber, Harold.

Title:

Memory, print, and gender in England, 1653-1759 / Harold Weber.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 262 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

ISBN:

0230607918 (hbk.)
9780230607910 (hbk.)

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)