{"product_id":"spensers-ruins-and-the-art-of-recollection-hardback-9780802090676","title":"Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection (Hardback) 9780802090676","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRebeca Helfer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802090676\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 July 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3.2 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘Highly recommended.’ - D.M. Moore (Choice Magazine, vol 50:05:2012) \u003cp\u003e‘Helfer’s memorable treatment of the topic and topos of memory is a major contribution to Spenser studies, Renaissance studies, and memory studies, and in its astute observations on Milton and others it opens up spaces on which subsequent critics will want to dwell.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Willey Maley (Renaissance Quarterly, vol 66:02:2013) ‘This is a fascinating, scholarly, and thought provoking work, and a formidable contribution to the growing body of challenges to Greenblatt’s influential vision of imperialist Spenser.’ - Syrithe Pugh (Review of English Studies vol 64:267:2013) \u003cp\u003e‘Rebecca Helfer’s monograph makes an invaluable contribution not only to Spenser scholarship but, more generally, to memory studies of the early modern period… Stimulating and substantial study of Spenser’s fascination with ‘the desire and duty to remember the past’.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Andrew Hiscock (Modern Language Review vol 110:02:2015)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the art of memory? Rebeca Helfer's intertextual study \u003cem\u003eSpenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh perspective on the significance of this ancient mnemonic technique to Edmund Spenser's writing and, through this lens, explores the art’s complex historical and literary reception.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day. As Helfer argues, ruins provide memorial spaces for an ongoing dialogue about how story relates to history, and how both relate to edification and empire-building.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough detailed, intertextual readings of \u003cem\u003eThe Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eComplaints\u003c\/em\u003e, and other Spenserian works, Helfer demonstrates how the art of memory shapes Spenser's theory and practice of poetry as well as his political view, throughout his career. More broadly, \u003cem\u003eSpenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection\u003c\/em\u003e points to new ways of understanding the importance of this art within literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: Preamble to Ruin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Spenser’s Complaints: The Fall of Troy, The Ruin of Rome, and tThe Art of Recollection\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Death of the ‘New Poete’: Ruin and Recollection in The Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Ruines of Time and the Art of Recollection\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘The Methode of a Poet Historical [and] … an Historiographer’: Recollecting the Past in the 1590 Faerie Queene\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Golden Age Returns: Recollecting Prehistory as Present in Spenser’s Later Work\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Misprision and Freedom: Ruining and Recollecting the Bower of Bliss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545900708120,"sku":"9780802090676","price":54.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/spensers-ruins-and-the-art-of-recollection-hardback-9780802090676","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}