Spenserian Satire

A Tradition of Indirection

AvRachel Hile

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's accomplishments and influence on satiric poetry. This book argues that the indirect form of satire developed by Spenser served during and after Spenser's lifetime as an important model for other poets who wished to convey satirical messages with some degree of safety. The book connects key Spenserian texts in The Shepheardes Calender and the Complaints volume with poems by a range of authors in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Joseph Hall, Thomas Nashe, Tailboys Dymoke, Thomas Middleton and George Wither, to advance the thesis that Spenser was seen by his contemporaries as highly relevant to satire in Elizabethan England.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-20
Mått:138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Spenser
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719088087

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Rachel E. Hile is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne

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‘Offers an important theoretical framework and textually detailed account of an overlooked genre in the history of satire.’Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature‘Hile’s book is an engaging and carefully researched study, which not only furthers our understanding of verse satires of the late-sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but also invites scholars to reassess the importance of indirect satire in the trajectory of Spenser’s works and the influence it had on emerging writers. By prompting us to read Spenser’s satirical work alongside his epic, pastoral, and lyrical poetry, Hile expands our sense of him as “the poets’s poet”’Stuart Hart, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol 49, Issue 1, Spring 2018

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Introduction1. Indirect satire: theory and Spenserian practice2. Spenser's satire of indirection: affiliation, allusion, allegory 3. Spenser and the English literary system in the 1590s4. Spenserian "entry codes" to indirect satire5. Thomas Middleton's satires before and after the Bishops' Ban6. After the Bishops' Ban: imitation of Spenserian satireConclusionIndex