‘Be Sure and Remember the Rabbits’: Memory as Moral Force in the Victorian Bildungsroman

The retrospective narrative mode of the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman afforded an ideal arena for modelling hypotheses about the nature and function of memory. Memory had long been held to be part of the consciousness that divided humans from the animal world, but mid-nineteenth-century scientifi...

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Main Author: Jay, Elisabeth (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 360-377
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