Download or read book Memory and Enlightenment written by James Ward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates how the ‘long eighteenth century’ (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art. Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to the present, it argues that these emerging and changing forms stage the period as a point of origin for the grounding of individual identity in personal memory, and as a site of foundational traumas that shape cultural memory.