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Book SynopsisThe first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies, this volume offers an innovative research agenda and invites new, explorative interdisciplinary methodologies. Essays by leading and emergent scholars provide fresh readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries across literary genres.
Trade Review'An expansive and consistently illuminating collection, Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England argues so convincingly for integrating the areas of memory and affect studies that early modernists will wonder that we ever considered them separately. In essays on a broad range of literary subjects-from complaint poetry and sonnets to grisly domestic tragedy, jestbooks, and the Shakespearean history play-Baldo and Karreman's important volume demonstrates how affect and memory co-structure one another in and through a provocatively diverse array of abstract and material forms, such as geography, temporality, verse rhythm, texts, and props.' Alice Dailey, Villanova University
'From memory arts to stagecraft via politics and the modalities of space and time, this book's organization demonstrates the varied possibilities of approaching memory and affect together. The essays included here offer smart, persuasive readings of Shakespearean drama and poetry as well as of non-canonical texts. A sustained exploration of memory and affect in early modern England is long overdue, and this collection thus provides an important and welcome intervention in early modern literary studies.' Kristine Johanson, University of Amsterdam
Table of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann; Part I. Ars Memoriae, Ars aAmatoria: 1. Allegories of Love: Affect and the Art of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets Rebeca Helfer; 2. Twelfth Night and the Rites of Memory Brian Cummings; 3 The Lustful Oblivion of Widowhood in The Insatiate Countess Grant Williams; Part II. The Politics of Memory and Affect: 4. 'Gathered Again from the Ash': Traumatropism, Memorialization, and Foxe's Acts and Monuments Devori Kimbro; 5. 'To Take on Me the Payn / Ther Fall to Remember': Metrical Visions and the Dangerous Memory Networks of Complaint William Kerwin; 6. Jesting, Nostalgia, and Agonistic Play Indira Ghose; Part III. Affective Memory: Temporal and Spatial Modalities: 7. 'My Despised Time': Memory, Temporality, and Disgust in Shakespearean Tragedy Johannes Schlegel; 8. Remembering Water in Robert Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies Katharine A. Craik; 9. Mourning Memory in Cymbeline Daniel Normandin; Part IV. Memory, Affect and Stagecraft: 10. The Tug of Memory: Affect and Invention in Shakespeare's Drama William E. Engel; 11. Memory, Text, Affect: The Deaths of Gloucester Rory Loughnane; 12. Memory, Affect, and the Multiverse: From the History Plays to The Merry Wives of Windsor Evelyn Tribble; 13. Cut Short All Intermission: Sound, Space, Memory, and Macduff's Grief Lina Perkins Wilder; Coda; 14. Remembering Shakespeare Peter Holland.
