The fields of literature, history, philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of recent interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination
This collection represents and explores these current developments and engages directly with the place of memory in culture and with memory's meaning(s) and history
Interdiciplinary collection
Susannah Radstone teaches in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London. Her research interests are in cultural theory, memory studies and psychoanalysis. Her previous publications include (ed) Memory and Methodology (2000) and she is currently completing On Memory and Confession, to be published by Routledge.
Katharine Hodgkin lectures in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London. Her research centres on questions of autobiography, memory and madness, particularly in the early modern period. She has published several articles on these topics, including most recently The Labyrinth and the Pit (History Workshop Journal 51 2001), a study of madness in seventeenth-century autobiography.
Part I - Believing the Body
Part II - Propping the Subject
Part III - What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind
Part IV - What History Forgets: Memory and Time
Part V - Memory Beyond the Modern