Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century

Katherine Haldane Grenier is Professor of History at The Citadel, USA. She is the author of Tourism and Identity in Scotland: Creating Caledonia, 1770-1914 (2005). Amanda R. Mushal is Associate Professor of History at The Citadel, USA. She is a contributor to The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity (2017) and The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century (2011).

“This collection provides a foundation for the understanding of commemoration in the modern world. The interdisciplinarity of this study broadens this understanding through connections to consumption, nationhood, race, and gender.” (Lisa Kasmer, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 61 (1), January, 2022)

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Memory and the Personal: Community, Commercial Culture, and Global Commerce.- 2. Mirrors with a Memory: Postmortem Photography and Spirit Photography in Transitional British Fiction and Culture.- 3. Autograph Albums and the Commercialization of Memory in the United States.- 4. Music for Birthdays: Commemorative Birthday Pieces in Johannes Brahms’s Circle (1853–1854) and Elsewhere.- 5. A Whale Is a Palimpsest: Dismembering and Remembering in Moby-Dick and Fighting the Whales.- 6. VVotive Boats, Ex-votos, and Maritime Memory in Atlantic France.- Part II Memory and Civic Identity.- 7.Libby Prison War Museum: Site of Commemoration or Commercial Enterprise.- 8. Randolph Cemetery and the Politics of Death in the Post-Civil War South.- 9. “The Same Effort and the Same Death”: The Memory of the Langalibalele Incident of 1873.- 10. Remembering the 1857 Indian Uprisingin Civic Celebrations.- 11.Nationalist Ironies: The Legacy of the Federalist Party and the Construction of a Unified Republic.- 12. German Domestic Pedestrian Tourism and the Rhetoric of National Historical Memory, Empire, and Middle-Class Identity 1780s–1850s.- 13. The Art of Memory: Tracing the Colonial in Contemporary India.