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dc.contributor.advisor | Walmsley, Dr. Peter | - |
dc.contributor.author | McConnell, Will | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-15T13:51:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-15T13:51:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1998-01 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/15667 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores the ground of, and practices of self-reflexivity behind, the often polemical contemporary debates that surround research practices and methodology in humanities and social sciences historiography. I focus on the unexamined reciprocity between conceptions of history and the linguistic and imagistic practices of remembering that affect and produce historiography in the eighteenth century: despite the identity of their epistemological foundation, in the long eighteenth century, ''history'' and "memory" begin to function as diverging truth-claims. By the end of the seventeenth century, John Locke's well-known articulation of tabula rasa--itself a divergence from the remarkably stable medieval and renaissance conceptions of memory as "storehouse" and tabula rasa--signals an epistemological shift in forms of objectivity and, consequently, the subject's experiences of her his interiority. I analyze aspects of the effects of this emerging epistemology on eighteenth century thinkers' reconstructions of the "social body." Across a number of authors' works and forms of representation--William Congreve's drama, Mary Wollstonecraft's political argumentation, picturesque theory and representation of nature, Locke, Hume, and Joseph Priestly's philosophical debates, and William Blake and Laurence Sterne's literary works--I attempt to trace significant shifts in the relation of, 'memory" and ''history.'' Throughout the chapters I focus on the relation of linguistic strategies of representation to shifts in various kinds of social and personal formations: from gender roles and political or cultural forms, to interpretations of causality, agency, and avenues for social change. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Social body | en_US |
dc.subject | Augustan literature | en_US |
dc.title | Ruin, Memory, and the Social Body in Augustan Literature | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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