| Abstract | Commissioned essays. According to editors intro:
One of the aims of the collection is to communicate the range of analysis encompassed by the idea of memory, in different disciplines and within differing theoretical traditions. It reviews debates conducted in the humanities, in the social sciences, and in the sciences (in cognitive psychology and in neuroscience), and provides analytical and historical depth across a number of specialized fields of inquiry. The variety of topics addressed, and the consequent scale of the book, are testimony to the plurality of phenomena that memory signifies. Even so, this book is not comprehensive, nor could it be. It reflects our own location, both in the wider sense of the north European provenance of the editors and, in terms of intellectual or disciplinary affiliation, in our training in the humanities." [More specifically, it emerges from British Cultural Studies.]
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