Table of Contents:
  • 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 dulness
  • "Graven with an iron pen and lead in the book for ever!": 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.