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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising

Leith Davis author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Mar '22

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The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.

This is the first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain. It examines the initial inscription of five pivotal episodes of English, Scottish and Irish history, revealing the mixture of memories and counter-memories in their subsequent mediations.Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial enterprise in Darien (1695-1700); the 1715 Jacobite Rising; and the 1745 Jacobite Rising. She explores the initial inscription of these episodes in forms such as ballads, official documents, manuscript newsletters, correspondence, newspapers and popular histories, and examines how counter-memories of these events continued to circulate in later mediations. Bringing together Memory Studies, Book History and British Studies, Mediating Cultural Memory offers a new interpretation of the early eighteenth century as a crucial stage in the development of cultural memory and illuminates the processes of remembrance and forgetting that have shaped the nation of Britain.

ISBN: 9781316510810

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 23mm

Weight: 596g

299 pages