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Spenser's forms of history / Bart van Es.
Van Pelt Library PR2367.H5 V36 2002
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LIBRA PR2367.H5 V36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Es, Bart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Knowledge and learning--History.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
- History.
- Literature and history--England--History--16th century.
- Literature and history.
- England.
- Historiography--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- Historical poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Historical poetry, English.
- Great Britain--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart Van Es presents an engaging study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of "forms of history"--chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology, political prophecy, and others--in both his poetry and his prose, and assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199249709
- OCLC:
- 50291191
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