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Its essays open up a field of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the “art of memory.” Such a field recovers forgetting’s crucial role in the production of early modernity’s subjective and collective identities, desires, and fantasies.  \nBecause forgetting is, as the introduction argues, a cultural presence not an absence, each of the volume’s four sections concentrates on a distinctive site of forgetting. The first section investigates the body as a volatile site of forgetting; the second examines poetic and rhetorical signs of forgetting; the third explores narratives of identity formation, reformation, and deformation; and the final section considers forgetting’s localities, ranging from the imaginary geography of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the early modern theatre and library.  \nThis book promotes a dynamic view of forgetting neither confined to a single discourse nor dominated by a single concept. Together its essays show how forgetting not only struggles and colludes with remembering to produce culture, but also forms its own images, places, materialities, and practices.  \nForgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture is essential reading for students and scholars of Renaissance Studies.  \nChristopher Ivic is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY, Potsdam. His articles on cultural identities in early modern Britain and Ireland have appeared in such books as Archipelagic Identities and British Identities and English Renaissance Literature, as well as in Ariel, Genre, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Grant Williams is Assistant Professor of English at Nipissing University. His articles on corporeal fantasies in early modern rhetoric, medical discourse, and literature have appeared in Spenser Studies, Exemplaria, ELH, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.  \nRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture  \n1 Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre  \nP. A. Skantze  \n2 The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson Mary Ellen Lamb  \n3 Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Lethe’s legacies  \nEdited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams  \n4 Irigaray and Premodern Culture  \nEdited by Theresa Krier and Elizabeth D. Harvey  \nForgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture  \nLethe’s legacies  \nEdited by  \nChristopher Ivic and Grant Williams  \nFirst published 2004  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.© 2004 Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams for editorial matter and selection; individual chapters, the contributors  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nA catalog record for this book has been requested  \nISBN 0-203-41708-9 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-34067-1 (Adobe eReader Format)  \nISBN 0–415–31046–6 (Print Edition)  \nContents  \nList of figures vii  \nList of contributors viii  \nAcknowledgments x  \nIntroduction: sites of forgetting in early modern English literature and culture 1  \nGRANT WILLIAMS AND CHRISTOPHER IVIC  \nPART I  \nEmbodiments 19  \n1 The decay of memory 21  \nWILLIAM E . ENGEL  \n2 Let","cbCaiiHNoZpJ6CUJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiHNoZpJ6CUJ","pdf",4146067,206,"English","# Introduction: sites of forgetting in early modern English literature and culture\n# Part I: Embodiments\n## 1 The decay of memory\n## 2 Lethargic corporeality on and off the early modern stage\n## 3 Pleasure’s oblivion: displacements of generation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene\n# Part II: Signs\n## 4 Textual crudities in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica\n## 5 Off the subject: early modern poets on rhyme, distraction, and forgetfulness\n# Part III: Narratives\n## 6 Reassuring fratricide in 1 Henry IV\n## 7 “The religion I was born in”: forgetting Catholicism and remembering the king in Donne’s Devotions\n## 8 Legends of oblivion: enchantment and enslavement in Book 6 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene\n# Part IV: Localities\n## 9 Nomadic Eros: remapping knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream\n## 10 “Unless you could teach me to forget”: spectatorship, self-forgetting, and subversion in antitheatrical literature and As You Like It\n## 11 Reading reformed: Spenser and the problem of the English library\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"How does the book define forgetting in early modern English culture?\",\"answer\":\"Forgetting is treated as a cultural presence rather than an absence. 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