Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘the dark backward and abysm of time’
- Chapter 1 ‘To seke the place where I my self hadd lost’: acts of memory in the poetry of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Chapter 2 ‘Remembre not (lorde) myne offences’: Katherine Parr and the politics of recollection
- Chapter 3 ‘Better a few things well pondered, than to trouble the memory with too much’: troubling memory and martyr in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
- Chapter 4 Text, recollection and Elizabethan Fiction: Nashe, Deloney, Gascoigne
- Chapter 5 The Doleful Clorinda? Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, and the vocation of memory
- Chapter 6 ‘Tell me where all past yeares are’: John Donne and the obligations of memory
- Chapter 7 ‘Of all the powers of the mind … the most delicate and fraile’: the poetry of Ben Jonson and the renewal of memory
- Chapter 8 ‘This art of memory’: Francis Bacon, memory and the discourses of power
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘the dark backward and abysm of time’
- Chapter 1 ‘To seke the place where I my self hadd lost’: acts of memory in the poetry of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Chapter 2 ‘Remembre not (lorde) myne offences’: Katherine Parr and the politics of recollection
- Chapter 3 ‘Better a few things well pondered, than to trouble the memory with too much’: troubling memory and martyr in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
- Chapter 4 Text, recollection and Elizabethan Fiction: Nashe, Deloney, Gascoigne
- Chapter 5 The Doleful Clorinda? Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, and the vocation of memory
- Chapter 6 ‘Tell me where all past yeares are’: John Donne and the obligations of memory
- Chapter 7 ‘Of all the powers of the mind … the most delicate and fraile’: the poetry of Ben Jonson and the renewal of memory
- Chapter 8 ‘This art of memory’: Francis Bacon, memory and the discourses of power
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011