Memory and Enlightenment Cultural Afterlives of the Long Eighteenth Century
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceMedia StudiesHistoryHistoriographyLiterary CriticismModern18th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication StudiesRenaissanceAnthropologyCultural & Social
2018Book
Author(s)James Ward
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
ISBN9783319967097
LanguageEnglish
