ABSTRACT
This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I
part |2 pages
Part II
part |2 pages
PART III Narratives
chapter 7|12 pages
“The religion I was born in”
Forgetting Catholicism and remembering the king in Donne’s Devotions
chapter 8|13 pages
Legends of oblivion
Enchantment and enslavement in Book 6 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene
part |2 pages
PART IV Localities
chapter 9|14 pages
Nomadic Eros: remapping knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Remapping knowledge in
chapter 10|14 pages
“Unless you could teach me to forget”
Spectatorship, self-forgetting, and subversion in antitheatrical literature and As You Like It