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.

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.

This volume is the first critical anthology of contemporary writings and illustrations about memory in Renaissance England.

This volume is the first critical anthology of contemporary writings and illustrations about memory in Renaissance England.