Title Memory's Daughters : The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America / Susan Stabile

Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004

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Description 1 online resource : 55 halftones Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Mnemosyne's Gift -- Introduction. The Genealogy of Memory -- Part One. Memory -- 1. The Architecture of Memory -- 2. Pen, Ink and Memory -- Part Two. Collective Reminiscence -- 3. Among Her Souvenirs -- 4. In Memoriam -- Conclusion. The Ruins of Time -- Notes -- Index Summary A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia--Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright--wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this stunningly original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience--a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era.Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning.Empirically rich and nuanced in its readings of different kinds of artifacts, this engaging work tells of the erasure of the women's lives from the national memory as the feminine aesthetic of scribal publication was overshadowed by the proliferating print culture of late eighteenth-century America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019) Subject American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Memory -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History Women poets, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century Material culture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional . Women and literature Souvenirs (Keepsakes) Material culture American poetry -- Women authors Memory -- Social aspects Women -- Intellectual life Women poets, American United States Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501729935 1501729934

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