Worldmaking Spenser : Explorations in the Early Modern Age / edited by Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silberman, Lauren.

Cheney, Patrick, 1949-

Series:

Studies in the English Renaissance.

Studies in the English Renaissance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretation.

Spenser, Edmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The essays look at Spenser from three distinct vantage points. The contributors explore his literary

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. SPENSER AND THE WORLD; A Primer of Spenser's Worldmaking: Alterity in the Bower of Bliss; Archimago and Amoret: The Poem and Its Doubles; II. SPENSER AND THE CONTINENTAL OTHER; Spenser's Squire's Literary History; The Laurel and the Myrtle: Spenser and Ronsard; III. SPENSER AND THE ENGLISH OTHER; Gloriana, Acrasia, and the House of Busirane: Gendered Fictions in The Faerie Queene as Fairy Tale; Women at the Margins in Spenser and Lanyer; Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane

""Mirrours More Then One"": Edmund Spenser and Female Authority in the Seventeenth CenturyMilton's Cave of Error: A Rewriting of Spenserian Satire; ""And yet the end was not"": Apocalyptic Deferral and Spenser's Literary Afterlife; IV. POLICING SELF AND OTHER: SPENSER, THE COLONIAL, AND THE CRIMINAL; Spenser's Faeryland and ""The Curious Genealogy of India""; Spenser and the Uses of British History; ""A doubtfull sense of things"": Thievery in The Faerie Queene 6.10 and 6.11; V. CONSTRUING SELF: LANGUAGE AND DIGESTION

""Better a Mischief than an Inconvenience"": ""The saiyng self"" in Spenser's View or, How Many Meanings Can Stand on the Head of a Proverb?; The Construction of Inwardness in The Faerie Queene, Book 2; Afterword: The Otherness of Spenser's Language; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-272) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6006-5

0-8131-6156-8

OCLC:

900345098