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This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental...



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This breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity.

-- Eugene W. Holland * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *

Present Past Modernity and the Memory Crisis

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 09/11/1993
      ISBN13: 9780801481321, 978-0801481321
      ISBN10: 0801481325
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental...



      Trade Review

      This breathtaking explication of the importance of memory in modernity sets the stage for brilliant readings that analyze a series of canonical works as symptoms of and reflections on the memory crisis.... Present Past is most importantly a contribution to our historical understanding of modernism and modernity.

      -- Eugene W. Holland * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *

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