Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams

Introduction: Sites of Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Grant Williams and Christopher Ivic

Part One: Embodiments

1. The Decay of Memory William E. Engel

2. 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. Harvey

Part Two: Signs

4. Textual Crudities in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica Grant Williams

5. Off the Subject: Early Modern Poets on Rhyme, Distraction, and Forgetfulness Amanda Watson

Part Three: Narratives

6. Reassuring Fratricide in 1 Henry IV Christopher Ivic

7. 'The Religion I Was Born In': Forgetting Catholicism and Remembering the King Donne's Devotions David J. Baker

8. Legends of Oblivion: Enchantment and Enslavement in Book Six of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Elizabeth Mazzola

Part Four: Localities

9. Nomadic Eros: Remapping Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream Philippa Berry

10. 'Unless You Could Teach Me to Forget': Spectatorship, Self-Forgetting, and Subversion in Antitheatrical Literature and As You Like It Zackariah Long

11. Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library Jennifer Summit