Reading memory in early modern literature

Introduction: 'the dark backward and abyss of time'

1. 'To seke the place where I my self hadd lost': acts of memory in the poetry of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey

2. 'Remembre not (lorde) myne offences': Katherine Parr and the politics of recollection

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

4. Text, recollection and Elizabethan fiction: Nashe, Deloney, and Gascoigne

5. The doleful Clorinda? Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, and the vocation of memory

6. 'Tell me, where all past yeares are': John Donne and the obligations of memory

7. 'Of all the powers of the mind ... the most delicate and fraile': the poetry of Ben Jonson and the renewal of memory

8. 'This art of memory': Francis Bacon, memory and the discourses of power.