Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Lethe's Legacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-31046-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ivic, Christopher

Williams, Grant

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sites of Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Grant Williams and Christopher Ivic

Part One: Embodiments

1. The Decay of Memory William E. Engel

2. Lethargic Corporeality on and off the Early Modern Stage Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.

3. Pleasure's Oblivion: Displacements of Generation in Spenser's Faerie Queene Elizabeth D. Harvey

Part Two: Signs

4. Textual Crudities in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica Grant Williams

5. Off the Subject: Early Modern Poets on Rhyme, Distraction, and Forgetfulness Amanda Watson

Part Three: Narratives

6. Reassuring Fratricide in 1 Henry IV Christopher Ivic

7. 'The Religion I Was Born In': Forgetting Catholicism and Remembering the King Donne's Devotions David J. Baker

8. Legends of Oblivion: Enchantment and Enslavement in Book Six of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Elizabeth Mazzola

Part Four: Localities

9. Nomadic Eros: Remapping Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream Philippa Berry

10. 'Unless You Could Teach Me to Forget': Spectatorship, Self-Forgetting, and Subversion in Antitheatrical Literature and As You Like It Zackariah Long

11. Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library Jennifer Summit

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams