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S Matthews - Victorian Review, 2008 - JSTOR
S Matthews
Victorian Review, 2008•JSTORTo Adams's jealous eye, Susan's album is primarily a record of his rivals, but albums were
not simply instruments of courtship. They were vessels of memory and autobiography,
collections of tokens of diverse people and places that added up to more than the sum of
their parts. Read as an example of the souvenir theorized by Susan Stewart in On Longing,
the album typifies the urgent" search for authentic experience and... for the authentic object"
within an exchange economy, where" as experience is increasingly mediated and …
not simply instruments of courtship. They were vessels of memory and autobiography,
collections of tokens of diverse people and places that added up to more than the sum of
their parts. Read as an example of the souvenir theorized by Susan Stewart in On Longing,
the album typifies the urgent" search for authentic experience and... for the authentic object"
within an exchange economy, where" as experience is increasingly mediated and …
To Adams's jealous eye, Susan's album is primarily a record of his rivals, but albums were not simply instruments of courtship. They were vessels of memory and autobiography, collections of tokens of diverse people and places that added up to more than the sum of their parts. Read as an example of the souvenir theorized by Susan Stewart in On Longing, the album typifies the urgent" search for authentic experience and... for the authentic object" within an exchange economy, where" as experience is increasingly mediated and abstracted, the lived relation of the body to the phenomenological world is replaced by a nostalgic myth of contact and presence"(133). The album's significance for
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