'A Grand Memory for Forgetting': Stevenson and Survival.
Date and time
Location
University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Theatre 2
11 Crichton Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9LE
United Kingdom
Description
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.