Leading Spenser scholars, including Richard McCabe and Willy Maley, contribute to this volume which aims to help modern readers understand Spenser's FAERIE QUEEN and other works in the context of 16th-century politics and culture.
As a powerful vehicle for the creation and circulation of meanings, literature played a crucial role in the early modern production of popular culture. By analyzing appropriations of fairies, old wives, and mummers, this book explores the conflicted entanglements in the early modern period of leaving, or attempting to leave, a once-shared common ...
Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the 16th-century English poet of "The Faerie Queen".
The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from ...
This book, the first comprehensive introduction to Spenser's work since 1963, places his epic, The Faerie Queene, in the context of his shorter works and gives those works extended treatment. Aside from his epic, Spenser wrote in nearly every nondramatic genre available to Elizabethan poets - eclogue book, complaint, satire, mythological narrative ...
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