Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of Narrative

by Cornelius Castoriadis and Director of Studies Cornelius Castoriadis

This book draws together three different but related kinds of inquiry. First, it approaches the history and theory of memory in the long eighteenth century to focus on the philosphical and literary writing of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Scotland. Debates about the significance ad working of memory and the nature of cognition were recurrent and contentious throughout the period, and were particularly pronunced in Scotland, where the psychological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838755399
• ISBN13: 9780838755396
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 249 Pages