'A Grand Memory for Forgetting': Stevenson and Survival.
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How do remembering and forgetting collaborate? How far can memories be controlled? Robert Louis Stevenson lived through a time when traditional forms of collective memory were being disrupted across the globe with a new speed and violence. How have Stevenson and his writings themselves been absorbed into memory? What can we learn from the Saint-Gaudens memorial in St Giles’s Cathedral or High Kirk? Join us for the SWINC Annual Lecture given by Professor Adrian Poole.