Title Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (320 p.) Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ''Living On'' in 1688 vs. 1745 -- Fields of Inquiry -- Summary of the Chapters -- Chapter 1 Of Documents and Declarations: Mediating the 1688 Revolution -- ''Foolish Ballads'' and Printed Declarations -- ''Perswad[ing] the World'': Print and the ''Multimedia Buzz'' before 1688 -- The ''Prints'' of Orange: William's Declaration and Transmedial Circuits of Opposition -- Fighting Words: Debating the Declaration -- ''Knowing-Showing'' the Revolution in Cultural Memory Chapter 2 Remembering to Forget: Ireland, the War of the Two Kings and Cultural Amnesia -- Newspaper Accounts of Ireland in the Aftermath of the 1688 Revolution -- Advertising Ireland in Space and Time -- ''The Subjects of Most Mens Discourse and Conversation'': The Siege of Derry as Media Event -- Forgetting to Remember: John Mitchelburne's Ireland Preserv'd: or the Siege of London-Derry -- Chapter 3 National Correspondences: Print, Letters and the Company of Scotland's Darien Expedition ''The Life of All Commerce Depends upon a Punctual Correspondence'': Letters and the Creation of the Company of Scotland -- Official Letters and the ''Honour and Independency of the Nation'' -- Writing Home: Letters between the Directors and the Colonists -- An ''Abundance of Letters Spread over the Countrey'': Letter Pamphlets from Darien -- Letter Trouble: ''We Have Never Heard So Much as One Silible'' -- Inscribing Darien in the Aftermath of the Disaster -- Darien and the Union of 1707 -- ''Mute and Methodical Memorials'': The Nineteenth-Century Rediscovery of the Darien Papers Chapter 4 Writing the 1715 Jacobite Rising: Periodical Networks and the Inscription of News -- Networking the News in 1715 -- ''Some Advices Say'': Mediations of the 1715 Rising in Manuscript Newsletters -- Expanding Coverage: Newspaper Accounts of the 1715 Rising -- Fitting to Print: Newspapers and the Discontinuities of Form -- ''One Continued Absurdity'': Periodical Essays and the Information Management of the 1715 Rising -- Un-mediating the Rising: ''Authentick Accounts'' and ''Lasting Monuments'' Chapter 5 Reading the 1745 Jacobite Rising: ''Transitory News-papers,'' ''Fleeting Pamphlets'' and Knots of Cultural Memory -- ''Fleeting Pamphlets'' and ''Transitory News-papers'' in 1745 -- Commemorating in Advance: Recollecting the Rising -- Trials of a Nation: Narratives of Jacobite Prisoners -- ''Chevalier'' Narratives of the 1745 Rising -- ''Fit for the Perusal of the Present Age, and of Posterity'': Popular Histories of the 1745 Rising -- Knots of Cultural Memory and the 1745 Rising -- Conclusion: ''Living On'' after 1745: From Cultural Memory to the Memory of Culture Summary The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain Notes Description based upon print version of record Cultural Memories and Feeling Histories Subject Collective memory -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century National characteristics, British. Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Collective memory in literature. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Printing -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Collective memory Collective memory in literature English prose literature National characteristics, British Nationalism Politics and literature Printing -- Political aspects Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1009041398 9781009041393

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