The Oxford handbook of Edmund Spenser /

edited by Richard A. McCabe.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: McCabe, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1954-
Summary:The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work & the social & intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, & metre, the poet's use of sources & subtexts, & the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, & visual artists.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Oxford University Press,
Series:Oxford handbooks of literature.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xxiii, 826 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Table of Contents:
Spenser's life /Willy Maley
Spenser and religion /Claire McEachern
Spenser and politics /David Baker
Spenser's secretarial career /Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher
Spenser, plantation, and government policy /Ciaran Brady
Spenser's patrons and publishers /Wayne Erickson
Spenser's biographers /Paul D. Stegner
A theatre for worldlings (1569) /Tom MacFaul
The shepheardes calender (1579) /Clare Kinney
Letters (1580) /Joseph Campana
The faerie queene (1590) /Linda Gregerson
Complaints and Daphnaïda (1591) /Mark David Rasmussen
Colin Clouts come home againe, Astrophel, and The doleful lay of Clorinda (1595) /Patrick Cheney
Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595) /Roland Greene
The faerie queene (1596) /Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Fowre hymnes and Prothalamion (1596) /David Lee Miller
A vewe of the presente state of Ireland (1596, 1633) /Elizabeth Fowler
Two cantos of mutabilitie (1609) /Gordon Teskey
"Lost Works," suppositious pieces, and continuations /Joseph Black and Lisa Celovsky
Spenser's language(s) : linguistic theory and poetic diction /Dorothy Stephens
Spenser's metrics /Jeff Dolven
Spenser's genres /Colin Burrow
Spenser and rhetoric /Peter Mack
Allegory, emblem, and symbol /Kenneth Borris
Authorial self-presentation /Richard A. McCabe
Spenser and the Bible /Carol V. Kaske
Spenser and classical literature /Syrithe Pugh
Spenser and classical philosophy /Andrew Escobedo
Spenser and history /Bart van Es
Spenser, Chaucer, and medieval romance /Andrew King
Spenser and neo-Latin literature /Lee Piepho
Spenser and sixteenth-century poetics /Elizabeth Heale
Spenser and Italian literature /Jason Lawrence
Spenser and French literature /Anne Lake Prescott
Spenser's textual history /Joe Loewenstein
Spenser's literary influence /Michelle O'Callaghan
Spenser and the visual arts /Claire Preston
The formalist tradition /David Wilson-Okamura
The historicist tradition in Spenser studies /John D. Staines
Spenser and gender studies /Theresa Krier
Psychoanalytical criticism /Elizabeth D. Harvey
Postcolonial Spenser /Andrew Hadfield.