Donald Beecher

Grant Williams

Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture

Ars Reminiscendi

William E. Engel

Rory Loughnane

This volume is the first critical anthology of contemporary writings and illustrations about memory in Renaissance England, featuring over seventy texts and over twenty illustrations. It is a valuable resource for students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history, and art history.

A Critical Anthology

The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

Andrew Wallace

Travis DeCook

Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

Taking Exception to the Law

The story is set in 2032, in a dystopian Britain during the Third World War. The 2020s have been ravaged by new covid outbreaks and the world has descended into conflict. To control the population, the British Government sets up The Ministry of Information run by a young Intelligence Officer called Sophie Hallam. The Ministry is able to use the latest surveillance equipment available to track the citizens of the UK under the guise of The War Act and Civil liberty has been eroded under the pretext of homeland security. Britain is no longer a land where freedom can be taken for granted.Charlie Wilson is a University Professor supplementing his income as a freelance journalist. Sophie Hallam starts tracking him. Is Charlie a 5th columnist and a subversive. What about his enigmatic friend and colleague at the London School of Economics, Karam Hashid?This fast paced, cat and mouse chase, around the streets and landmarks of London is an edge of the seat thriller against the backdrop of a not too futuristic world that has emerged from the Covid 19 Pandemic, a world of insecurity, fear and bleakness.The story takes the reader on an epic global journey from China to America, from the countries of Africa to the shores of Southern Europe, from Syria to Nigeria and closer to home, the intimacy of The Borough Market, Westminster and the Thames Barrier. This novel will stretch the readers mind in length and breadth but also in time, spanning a period of fourteen years. Is this futurology or just nail biting fiction?In America, the Biden Presidency, the second American Civil War and the return of Donald Trump in 2024 presages war with China. The Chinese invasion of Taiwan and the absorption of Hong Kong leads to the outbreak of World War Three. This is no conventional war, instead fought by proxy in Africa, where Covid 28 has been weaponised, forcing mass migration with the potential to swamp the continent of Europe.Armies are created but not to fight one another, but to repel the mass of human flotsam which threatens the very future of the EU. Britain creates its own Homeland Defense to repel the hundreds of thousands of immigrants fleeing the African Continent.Against this backdrop, the advances in technology are staggering. Driverless cars, known as Pods, become the new surveillance, putting tens of millions of cameras on the roads, enabling the authorities to watch their population day and night. Drones that deliver goods twenty four seven act like spies in the sky for the ever watchful eye of The Ministry of Information monitoring a population cowed and subjugated not by force, but by propaganda and disinformation.Sophie Hallam, the brightest star of all the Military Intelligence sits astride the Ministry, watching over London with millions of cameras at her disposal. How could anyone push back against the state unseen?

The Future Laid Bare

Twenty Thirty Four

Christopher Ivic

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.

Lethe's Legacy

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Escaping the Bolsheviks by boat at night as a baby, Russian Jew Leon Aleksandrov, spends his early years with his family seeking a safe haven in an increasingly anti-semitic Europe in the 1920s finally settling for safety in liberal Berlin. With the rise of Nazism Leon flees to France, is imprisoned, escapes to England and joins the army in time for D-Day. He fights his way through Europe into the very bowels of Nazi Germany and Hitler's Reich Chancellery. His war is far from over as his language skills see him translate for Stalin and Churchill at the Potsdam conference and remaining in Berlin to help re-build Germany. A true story of determination and extraordinary events, his tale reads like Forrest Gump meets Saving Private Ryan. Prepare to be amazed at one man's life story.

The Epic Story of Leonid Aleksandrov's Journey from Russia to Normandy and Berlin

World War II Survival

Grant Williams

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