This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory.

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HAROLD M. WEBER is Professor of English, University of Alabama, USA.

Inhalt
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 Dullness 'Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book forever!': 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