Abstract

This essay examines the annotated description of a quilt produced by one woman to memorialize her mother who died in 1902. The quilt's function is analyzed in relationship to nineteenth-century mourning rituals and to other mnemonic aides produced and used in the nineteenth-century domestic sphere to remember-like scrapbooks and, later, photography. This study promotes memory-making as a rhetorical end and suggests a study of technologies employed in the nineteenth-century domestic sphere might reshape our conception of mnemonic activity and also a perceived separation between the rhetorical canons.

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Rhetoric Review
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2004-10-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2304_5
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