William Dean Howells and the American memory crisis
By: Lance Rubin.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781604975444
Subjects: Howells, William Dean, -- 1837-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation; Memory in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Realism in literature; Collective memory and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : remembering and forgetting (in) William Dean Howells; title: Realism and the politics of counter-memory; title: The memory crisis, advertising, and the ambivalence of amnesia in "A sleep and a forgetting"; title: "To make up an America among ourselves" : history, memory and the Turkish room; title: Cultural memory, spiritualism, and Howells's ghost stories; title: "We haven't any of us perfect memories, have we?" : monuments photographs, and the construction of memory.