Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653–1759

1. Introduction: The Invention of Modern Memory
Harold Weber

2. “Building Castles in the Air”: Margaret Cavendish and the Anxieties of Monumentality
Harold Weber

3. “A Space for Narration”: Milton and the Politics of Collective Memory
Harold Weber

4. “Oh grant an honest Fame, or grant me none!”: The Ethics of Memorialization in Pope’s Archives of Dulness
Harold Weber

5. “Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book for ever!”: Paper and Permanence in Richardson’s Clarissa
Harold Weber

6. Conclusion: From the “Garbage Heap” of Memory to the Cyborg: The Exhaustion and Revitalization of Memory in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Harold Weber

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature