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

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ivic, Christopher, 1968-, Williams, Grant, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Memory in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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