A primer of Spenser's worldmaking / Roland Greene -- Archimago and Amoret / David Quint -- Spenser's squire's literary history / William J. Kennedy -- The laurel and the myrtle: Spenser and Ronsard / Anne Lake Prescott -- Gloriana, Acrasia, and the house of Busirane / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Women at the margins in Spenser and Lanyer / Susanne Woods -- Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane / Jacqueline T. Miller -- "Mirrour more then one" / Shannon Miller -- Milton's cave of error / John N. King -- "And yet the end was not" / John Watkins -- Spenser's Faeryland and "The curious genealogy of India" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy -- Spenser and the uses of British history / David J. Baker -- "A doubtfull sense of things" / Heather Dubrow -- "Better a mischief than an inconvenience" / Judith H. Anderson -- The construction of inwardness in The Faerie Queene, book 2 / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Afterword / Michael Schoenfeldt.
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Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The essays look at Spenser from three distinct vantage points. The contributors explore his literary.
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Title
Worldmaking Spenser : Explorations in the Early Modern Age.
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9780813121260
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599-- Criticism and interpretation.
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 16th century.