Introduction: Obsessions with Remembering

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Obsessions with Remembering 1
5. 1 The Anatomy of Early Modern Memory 30
6. 2 Mental Libraries: The Places of Memory 54
7. 3 Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of Images 79
8. 4 Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes 110
9. 5 Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory 137
10. Epilogue: Lethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote 163
11. Notes 177
12. Bibliography 221
13. Index 241