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Article: Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature: Lethe's Legacies.(Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature: Lethe's Legacies, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, vol. 3)(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2007
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Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams, eds. Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature: Lethe's Legacies.
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 3. London: Routledge, 2004. x + 196 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-415-31046-6.
Recent scholarship on the art of memory has been flourishing. As its title indicates, this collection recognizes a related and growing interest in forgetting, a process with its own cultural roles, iconography, and material history. Coeditors Grant Williams and Christopher Ivic's introduction establishes the scholarly relevance of oblivion, arguing that its urgency consists not solely in its mutually ...