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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821688403321

Autore

Pivetti Kyle

Titolo

Of memory and literary form : making the early modern English nation / / Kyle Pivetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : University of Delaware Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61149-559-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/35842

Soggetti

Memory in literature

History in literature

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "a mass of memories assembled" --"Your grace remembereth": memory as political counsel in Gorboduc -- Justified possessions: Spenser's recollections of "Faery lond" -- To conjure a nation: memory tricks and Henry V -- Remembering oblivion: Mlton's ambivalent politics in retrospect -- Coupling past and future: Dryden's rhymes as history -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

Across readings of late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century works, Kyle Pivetti argues that the writers of early modern England found in literary forms-including dumb shows, allegory, and rhyme-the means to construct national memory.