INTRODUCTION:READING NOSTALGIA ; CONCLUSION: NOSTALGIC READING
Nicholas Dames is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
"Amnesiac Selves is a highly intelligent, stimulating work, which
will keep readers in constant dialogue. Dames is a skilful close
reader of texts, and moves deftly between individual analysis and
general claim."--Sally Shuttleworth, Victorian Studies
"If a major challenge of analyzing the Victorian novel is the sheer
excess of material, Nicholas Dames's Amnesiac Selves...brilliantly
argues that forgetting that detail is central not only to
interpreting those novels but to the structure of the novels
themselves."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"Amnesiac Selves is an insightful book, and its insights are
important. Nicholas Dames develops in this helpful volume a
revisionist view of memory in the early Victorian novel, a view so
innovative it not only illuminates our modern perspective of the
Victorian mental landscape, it reshapes it.... This careful study
deserves reading. Even if you don't agree as enthusiastically as I
do with Nicholas Dames' analysis of Victorian views of memory
from
1810 through 1870, I will be surprised if those views don't
stimulate review of your personal world view. If the way we
remember the past matters, Amnesiac Selves..., with its
meticulously detailed revision of
our picture of Victorian memory, bears thinking about."--Steven C.
Walker, Studies in the Novel
"[An] excellent study.... Dames provides a detailed and innovative
account of the intersections between literary and psychological
views of memory in the nineteenth century.... In charting the
strategic and self-willed amnesias of the Victorians, Dames
illuminates how nostalgia became a cultural habit and a way of
reading the past that persists to this day."--Albion
"Amnesiac Selves is a highly intelligent, stimulating work, which
will keep readers in constant dialogue. Dames is a skilful close
reader of texts, and moves deftly between individual analysis and
general claim."--Sally Shuttleworth, Victorian Studies
"If a major challenge of analyzing the Victorian novel is the sheer
excess of material, Nicholas Dames's Amnesiac Selves...brilliantly
argues that forgetting that detail is central not only to
interpreting those novels but to the structure of the novels
themselves."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"Amnesiac Selves is an insightful book, and its insights are
important. Nicholas Dames develops in this helpful volume a
revisionist view of memory in the early Victorian novel, a view so
innovative it not only illuminates our modern perspective of the
Victorian mental landscape, it reshapes it.... This careful study
deserves reading. Even if you don't agree as enthusiastically as I
do with Nicholas Dames' analysis of Victorian views of memory
from
1810 through 1870, I will be surprised if those views don't
stimulate review of your personal world view. If the way we
remember the past matters, Amnesiac Selves..., with its
meticulously detailed revision of
our picture of Victorian memory, bears thinking about."--Steven C.
Walker, Studies in the Novel
"[An] excellent study.... Dames provides a detailed and innovative
account of the intersections between literary and psychological
views of memory in the nineteenth century.... In charting the
strategic and self-willed amnesias of the Victorians, Dames
illuminates how nostalgia became a cultural habit and a way of
reading the past that persists to this day."--Albion
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