Memory and Enlightenment

Cultural Afterlives of the Long Eighteenth Century

James Ward (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 251 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40366-9 (ISBN)

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This book illuminates how the 'long eighteenth century' (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art. Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to the present, it argues that these emerging and changing forms stage the period as a point of origin for the grounding of individual identity in personal memory, and as a site of foundational traumas that shape cultural memory.

James Ward is a Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK.

Acknowledgements.- 1.Introduction - Theatres of Memory.- 2.Restorations.- 3.'Ever-haunting Hogarth': Remembering the Hogarthian Progress.- 4.Emma Donoghue's Enlightenment Fictions.- 5.Memory and Enlightenment in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian.- 6. The Recruiting Officer in the Penal Colony.- 7.Memory and Atrocity: Representing the Zong .-8.Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 251 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	18th century • Colonialism • Cultural Narratives • historical fiction • Long Eighteenth Century • memorialisation • neo-historical • Neo-victorian • Nostalgia • traumatic memory • visual art
ISBN-10	3-030-40366-1 / 3030403661
ISBN-13	978-3-030-40366-9 / 9783030403669
Zustand	Neuware