Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams

'This collection is a significant achievment in Renaissance studies.' - Lynne Magnusson, University of Toronto, Renaissance Quarterly'This is a valuable collection, a fine contribution not only to studies of Renaissance literature and culture but also to the continuing problematice of memory and forgetting. Well-researched, agile and appropriately various in their explorations of a common theme, the essays are informative and engaging.' - Brian Edwards, Deakin University

• Introduction: Sites of Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Grant Williams and Christopher IvicPart One: Embodiments1. The Decay of Memory William E. Engel2. 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. HarveyPart Two: Signs4. Textual Crudities in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica Grant Williams5. Off the Subject: Early Modern Poets on Rhyme, Distraction, and Forgetfulness Amanda WatsonPart Three: Narratives6. Reassuring Fratricide in 1 Henry IV Christopher Ivic7. 'The Religion I Was Born In': Forgetting Catholicism and Remembering the King Donne's Devotions David J. Baker8. Legends of Oblivion: Enchantment and Enslavement in Book Six of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Elizabeth MazzolaPart Four: Localities9. Nomadic Eros: Remapping Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream Philippa Berry10. 'Unless You Could Teach Me to Forget': Spectatorship, Self-Forgetting, and Subversion in Antitheatrical Literature and As You Like It Zackariah Long11. Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library Jennifer Summit