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- Title
"The Weird Message from the Past": Material Epistemologies of Past, Present, and Future in the "Nineteenth Century."
- Authors
Zimmerman, Virginia
- Abstract
This essay examines the periodical the "Nineteenth Century" and how the journal promoted the preservation of material remains, such as the Elgin Marbles, a dog's footprint, and maps of London, are offered as traces that must be preserved to ensure the endurance of the past into the present and of the present into the future. It explores the significance that Victorians placed on historic preservation and discusses what the placing of this value indicates about the Victorians' idea of self awareness and how they hoped to be perceived by later generations.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; 19TH Century (Periodical); HISTORIC preservation; 19TH century English literature; PERIODICALS &; society; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2009, Vol 42, Issue 2, p114
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.0.0078