Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century

This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices. Distinctive memory cultures emerged during this period which would fundamentally reshape public and private practices of remembrance in the modern world. The essays in this volume bring together scholars of History, Literature, Art History, and Musicology to explore uses of memory in nineteenth-century empire-building and constructions of national identity, cultures of sentiment and mourning practices, and discourses of race and power. Contributors approach the topic through case studies of Europe, the United States, and the British Empire. Their analyses of nineteenth-century innovations in commemoration at both the personal and the larger civic and political levels will appeal to students and scholars of memory and of the nineteenth-century world.

Auteur

Katherine Haldane Grenier is Professor of History at The Citadel, USA. She is the author of Tourism and Identity in Scotland: Creating Caledonia, 1770-1914 (2005).

Amanda R. Mushal is Associate Professor of History at The Citadel, USA. She is a contributor to The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity (2017) and The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century (2011).

Contenu

1. IntroductionPart I Memory and the Personal: Community, Commercial Culture, and Global Commerce2. Mirrors with a Memory: Postmortem Photography and Spirit Photography in Transitional British Fiction and Culture3. Autograph Albums and the Commercialization of Memory in the United States4. Music for Birthdays: Commemorative Birthday Pieces in Johannes Brahms's Circle (18531854) and Elsewhere5. A Whale Is a Palimpsest: Dismembering and Remembering in Moby-Dick and Fighting the Whales6. VVotive Boats, Ex-votos, and Maritime Memory in Atlantic FrancePart II Memory and Civic Identity7.Libby Prison War Museum: Site of Commemoration or Commercial Enterprise8. Randolph Cemetery and the Politics of Death in the Post-Civil War South9. The Same Effort and the Same Death: The Memory of the Langalibalele Incident of 187310. Remembering the 1857 Indian Uprising in Civic Celebrations11.Nationalist Ironies: The Legacy of the Federalist Party and the Construction of a Unified Republic12. German Domestic Pedestrian Tourism and the Rhetoric of National Historical Memory, Empire, and Middle-Class Identity 1780s1850s13. The Art of Memory: Tracing the Colonial in Contemporary India.