| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 3
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Ivic, Christopher, 1968-
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Williams, Grant, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415310466 (DLC) 2003062510 (OCoLC)53013471 |
| ISBN |
0203417089 (electronic book) |
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9780203417089 (electronic book) |
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0415310466 (Cloth) |
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