Cambridge Companion to Spenser (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hadfield, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511221583
• Artikelnr.: 38200512

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: The relevance of Edmund Spenser A. Hadfield
1. Spenser's life and career R. Rambuss
2. Historical contexts: Britain and Europe D. J. Baker
3. Ireland: policy, poetics and parody R. McCabe
4. Spenser's pastorals: The Shepardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe P. Cheney
5. The Faerie Queene, I-III S. L. Wofford
6. The Faerie Queene, IV-VII A. Hadfield
7. Spenser's shorter poems A. L. Prescott
8. Spenser's languages: writing in the ruins of English W. Maley
9. Sexual politics L. Gregerson
10. Spenser's religion J. King
11. Spenser and classical traditions C. Borrow
12. Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry R. Greene
13. Spenser's influence P. Alpers
Index.