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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198709676

ISBN-139780198709671

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Number of Pages852 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser

SubjectGeneral, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorRichard A. Mccabe

SeriesOxford Handbooks Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Reviews'Review from previous edition This volume is a huge undertaking and is to be welcomed for its comprehensive coverage and attention to detail'Joan Fitzpatrick, Year's Work in English Studies'The Handbook's greatest strength is its provocative definition of new lines of inquiry.'Hazel Wilkinson, The Times Literary Supplement, "Offers a magisterial summation of current scholarship...For at least the next decade, this will be the place where graduate students first turn." --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal821.3

Table Of ContentIntroductionAbbreviationsIllustrationsList of ContributorsSection 1: Contexts1. Spenser's Life2. Spenser and Religion3. Spenser and Politics4. Spenser's Secretarial Career5. Spenser's Plantation6. Spenser's Patrons and Publishers7. Spenser's BiographersSection 2: Works8. A Theatre for Worldlings (1569)9. The Shepheardes Calender (1579)10. Letters (1580)11. The Faerie Queene (1590)12. Complaints, Daphnaïda (1591)13. Colin Clovts, Astrophel (1595)14. Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595)15. The Faerie Queene (1596)16. Fowre Hymnes, Prothalamion (1596)17. A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596, 1633)18. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (1609)19. 'Lost Works', Suppositious Pieces, and ContinuationsSection 3: Poetic Craft20. Spenser's Language(s)21. Spenser's Metrics22. Spenser's Genres23. Spenser and Rhetoric24. Emblem, Allegory and Symbol25. Authorial Self-presentationSection 4: Sources and Influences26. Spenser and the Bible27. Spenser and Classical Literature28. Spenser and Philosophy29. Spenser and Historiography30. Spenser, Chaucer and Medieval Romance31. Spenser and Neo-Latin Literature32. Spenser and Sixteenth-Century Poetics33. Spenser and Italian Literature34. Spenser and French LiteratureSection 5: Reception35. Spenser's Textual History36. Spenser's Literary Influence37. Spenser and the Visual Arts38. The Formalist Tradition39. The Historicist Tradition40. Gender Studies41. Psychoanalytical Criticism42. Postcolonial SpenserIndex

SynopsisWritten by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former criticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. Section I, 'Contexts', elucidates the circumstances in which the poetry and prose were written, and suggests some of the majorpolitical, social, and professional issues with which the work engages. Section 2, 'Works', presents a series of new readings of the canon informed by the most recent scholarship. Section 3, 'Poetic Craft',provides a detailed analysis of what Spenser termed the poet's 'cunning', the linguistic, rhetorical, and stylistic skills that distinguish his writing. Section 4, 'Sources and Influences', examines a wide range of subtexts, intertexts ,and analogues that contextualise the works within the literary conventions, traditions and genres upon which Spenser draws and not infrequently subverts. Section 5, 'Reception', grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors,writers, painters, and book-illustrators, while also attempting to identify the most salient and influential strands in the critical tradition. The volume serves as both companion and herald to theOxford University Press edition of Spenser's Complete Works. No 'agreed' view of Spenser emerges from this work or is intended to. The contributors approach the texts from a variety of viewpoints and employ diverse methods of critical interpretation with a view to stimulating informed discussion and future scholarship., The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, and metre, the poet's use of sources and subtexts, and the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, and visual artists., Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former criticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. Section I, 'Contexts', elucidates the circumstances in which the poetry and prose were written, and suggests some of the major political, social, and professional issues with which the work engages. Section 2, 'Works', presents a series of new readings of the canon informed by the most recent scholarship. Section 3, 'Poetic Craft', provides a detailed analysis of what Spenser termed the poet's 'cunning', the linguistic, rhetorical, and stylistic skills that distinguish his writing. Section 4, 'Sources and Influences', examines a wide range of subtexts, intertexts, and analogues that contextualise the works within the literary conventions, traditions and genres upon which Spenser draws and not infrequently subverts. Section 5, 'Reception', grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors, writers, painters, and book-illustrators, while also attempting to identify the most salient and influential strands in the critical tradition. The volume serves as both companion and herald to the Oxford University Press edition of Spenser's Complete Works. No 'agreed' view of Spenser emerges from this work or is intended to. The contributors approach the texts from a variety of viewpoints and employ diverse methods of critical interpretation with a view to stimulating informed discussion and future scholarship., Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former criticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. Section I, "Contexts", elucidates the circumstances in which the poetry and prose were written, and suggests some of the major political, social, and professional issues with which the work engages. Section 2, "Works", presents a series of new readings of the canon informed by the most recent scholarship. Section 3, "Poetic Craft", provides a detailed analysis of what Spenser termed the poet's "cunning", the linguistic, rhetorical, and stylistic skills that distinguish his writing. Section 4, "Sources and Influences", examines a wide range of subtexts, intertexts ,and analogues that contextualise the works within the literary conventions, traditions and genres upon which Spenser draws and not infrequently subverts. Section 5, "Reception", grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors, writers, painters, and book-illustrators, while also attempting to identify the most salient and influential strands in the critical tradition. The volume serves as both companion and herald to the Oxford University Press edition of Spenser's Complete Works. No "agreed" view of Spenser emerges from this work or is intended to. The contributors approach the texts from a variety of viewpoints and employ diverse methods of critical interpretation with a view to stimulating informed discussion and future scholarship.

LC Classification NumberPR2364