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.
Acknowledgements.- 1.Introduction Theatres of Memory.- 2.Restorations.- 3.Ever-haunting Hogarth: Remembering the Hogarthian Progress.- 4.Emma Donoghues 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.
James Ward is a Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK. 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.
Unique perspective: links the work of the eighteenth century to memory studies Exciting approach: considers not just the eighteenth century and its texts, but the way the period is reworked and re-imagined today Wide-ranging: covers art, literature, history, modern art, fiction and films Why do eighteenth century history and aesthetics continue to haunt the contemporary imagination? To what purposes is this period put in the present? Andl3
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