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.

書誌詳細
その他の著者: Ivic, Christopher, 1968-, Williams, Grant, 1965-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
シリーズ:Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=114875
目次:
  • 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.