Reclaiming Memory: Literature, Science, and the Rise of Memory as Property, 1860--1945 (2011)
Covington, Elizabeth Reeves (Author)
Wollager, Mark
Vanderbilt University
Edition Details: Advisor: Wollager, Mark.
Physical Details: 241 pp.
Language: English
The overall goal of this dissertation is not only to illustrate the differences between scientific and literary theories of memory, but also to demonstrate that the uncertainty over memory ushered in by experimental psychologists was artistically productive. While I do not claim that the aestheticization of memory, the rise of the fictionalized autobiography, the focus on the present moment in the modernist day novel, the turn to collectivity before the Second World War, or the infinite ways that writers insisted that memory belonged to the rememberer were due solely to the emerging memory sciences, they are an unexamined, and significant, influence on the literary developments of the period. The divergence of science and literature that I have described in this dissertation is just the beginning of the story. Indeed, scientists and literary writers alike turned to memory with hope that it might provide, in the words of Frederic Bartlett, "complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place."
...MoreDescription Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 75/03(E), Sep 2014. Proquest Document ID: 1467748612.
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