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Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture : Lethe's legacies /

Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ivic, Christopher, 1968-, Williams, Grant, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.