Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture :
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[Book]
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Lethe's legacies /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) :
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illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
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3
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.
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Title
Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture.
International Standard Book Number
0415310466
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.