Memory and Enlightenment Cultural Afterlives of the Long Eighteenth Century /

• Main Author: Ward, James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Subjects: Communication.; Historiography.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Media and Communication.; Memory Studies.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Cultural Theory.
• Physical Description: VIII, 251 p. 9 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319967103
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96710-3

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. .