Thomas Herron

Spenser's Irish Work

Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring Spenser's work within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland, this study demonstrates how Irish events operate in more of Spenser's poetry than previously suspected. It explores heretofore neglected Irish material in the work of Spenser's contemporaries and Elizabethan pageantry in the 1590s. Taking in history, religion, geography, classics, and colonial studies as well as early modern literature and Irish and bardic studies, this book constitutes a valuable addition to Spenser scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656029
• ISBN-10: 0754656020
• Artikelnr.: 44971992

Autorenporträt

Thomas Herron is Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: ruin or monument? Cultivating optimism in early
modern Ireland. Part 1 Finding Spenser's Ireland: Spenser and the anxious
critics; Spenser's plantation life; Planting Reformation in Ireland:
Walshe, Smith, Robinson and Bryskett; Spenser's heroic legacy in Munster
verse: Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane. Part 2 Creating The Faerie Queene:
Rethinking Book I from Within a Georgic-Irish Paradigm: Elemental violence
and the Virgilian ladder; Flourishing monarchs: Virgil's Georgics, Gavin
Douglas, and the Proem to The Faerie Queene; Plain thinking and civic
celebration in Book I. Part 3 Local Adversity and Apocalyptic triumph:
Books V, VI and VII of The Faerie Queene: Imperial coda: Elizabethan
progress and 'The Mutabilitie Cantos'; 'Pagan hound': Cúchulainn, the
Souldan and the Spanish Armada in Book V; Taming Raleigh's beast: monastic
dissolution and local politics in Book VI; Bibliography; Index.