Taking a cue from Lewis Hyde’s A Primer for Forgetting (2019); from the inseparability of remembering from forgetting; and from the importance of both to the period that brought us Freud, two opium wars, and numerous variations on the themes of nostalgia and amnesia, this class will explore the relation between remembering and forgetting in the Victorian novel and Victorian culture. We will discuss the role of technologies and institutions (museums; collections; photography; the novel) in shaping the ways in which, and the kinds of things, the Victorians chose to remember and to forget. Topics may include, among others: repression and forgetfulness; false and/or recovered memory; screen memory; post-memory; cultural and individual remembering and forgetting.