Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies

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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