This book illuminates how the 'long eighteenth century' (1660-1800)
persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing
and visual art. Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to
the present, it argues that these emerging and changing forms stage the
period as a point of origin for the grounding of individual identity in
personal memory, and as a site of foundational traumas that shape
cultural memory.