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'Enclosed within the outer case of an old-fashioned gold watch, a silk watch- paper embroidered with the initials “D.N.F” carries to Arthur Clennam’s mother from his dying father a reminder of obligations variously interpreted by the characters in Little Dorrit, Dickens’s novel of 1857. It is a palpable image of memory’s housing in time, of the spatial and temporal dimensions across which memory travels, and of the histories and psychologies it holds in connection from time past and into the future of a legally-binding intent. It raises questions about “the duty of memory” that preoccupy contemporary cultural narrative.' (Introduction)
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Do Not Forget : Memory and Moral Obligation in Little Dorrit