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Conclusion

“Living On” after 1745: From Cultural Memory to the Memory of Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Leith Davis
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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The Conclusion traces the afterlife of the knots of memory examined in earlier chapters in two printed genres: the multi-volume histories of the nation that became popular in the late eighteenth century and the historical novel in the hands of Walter Scott. Works such as David Hume’s and Tobias Smollett’s histories replicate some of the counter-memories that were produced in the earlier printed discourse on the nation. Scott, however, transforms the complicated knots of memories and counter-memories by drawing attention to and framing them. Waverley, for example, both acknowledges the power of counter-memories and prevents their re-activation by including them within a narrative that connects a progressive sense of a consolidated British cultural memory with a model of media succession.

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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising
, pp. 249 - 269
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conclusion
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.007
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  • Conclusion
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.007
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  • Conclusion
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.007
Available formats
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