Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection

What is the art of memory? Rebeca Helfer's intertextual study Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection 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.

Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of mem...