Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration

1. Introduction Part I Memory and the Personal: Community, Commercial Culture, and Global Commerce 2. Mirrors with a Memory: Postmortem Photography and Spirit Photography in Transitional British Fiction and Culture 3. Autograph Albums and the Commercialization of Memory in the United States 4. Music for Birthdays: Commemorative Birthday Pieces in Johannes Brahms's Circle (1853-1854) and Elsewhere 5. A Whale Is a Palimpsest: Dismembering and Remembering in Moby-Dick and Fighting the Whales 6. VVotive Boats, Ex-votos, and Maritime Memory in Atlantic France Part II Memory and Civic Identity 7.Libby Prison War Museum: Site of Commemoration or Commercial Enterprise 8. Randolph Cemetery and the Politics of Death in the Post-Civil War South 9. "The Same Effort and the Same Death": The Memory of the Langalibalele Incident of 1873 10. Remembering the 1857 Indian Uprising in Civic Celebrations 11.Nationalist Ironies: The Legacy of the Federalist Party and the Construction of a Unified Republic 12. German Domestic Pedestrian Tourism and the Rhetoric of National Historical Memory, Empire, and Middle-Class Identity 1780s-1850s 13. The Art of Memory: Tracing the Colonial in Contemporary India.