Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture :
[Book]
Lethe's legacies /
edited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) :
illustrations
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: sites of forgetting in early modern English literature and culture; The decay of memory; Lethargic corporeality on and off the early modern stage; Pleasure's oblivion: displacements of generation in Spenser's Faerie Queene; Signs; Textual crudities in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Off the subject: early modern poets on rhyme, distraction, and forgetfulness; Narratives; Reassuring fratricide in 1 Henry IV.
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Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.
Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture.
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.