Paul J. Hecht is associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central and the author of several articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth.J. B. Lethbridge lectures at Tübingen University and is general editor of the monograph series The Manchester Spenser.

Hecht and Lethbridge see themselves as spearheading a movement that will replace the orthodoxies of New Criticism (and its progeny, including New Historicism) with unorthodox—indeed, revolutionary—ways of reading Edmund Spenser’s poetry. . . .[The book beings ]with Syrithe Pugh’s superb account of how Spenser imitates Virgil. Every Spenserian will want to read the excellent middle section, 'Spenser and Music,' with its complementary essays by David Scott Wilson-Okamura and Gavin Alexander. . . .The promised 'new era of Spenser scholarship' begins to take shape in the final section ('Meter/Moment'), with Hecht’s essay 'Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and Aesthetics,' Lethbridge's extension of his case against 'expressivist' reading, and Gordon Teskey's bravura display on The Faerie Queene as 'a poem of moments.'. . . .Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• PrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Notes toward a New Spenser Paul J. Hecht Classical, Medieval, Material2 Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser’s Virgilian CareerSyrithe Pugh3 Spenser and the “Medieval” Past: A Question of DefinitionKathryn Walls4 Spenser and Book History Elisabeth ChaghafiSpenser and Music5 Music in Spenser David Scott Wilson-Okamura6 Spenser in Music Gavin AlexanderMeter/Moment7 Irreverent SpenserianaApril Bernard, K. Silem Mohammad8 Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and AestheticsPaul J. Hecht9 The Poetry of The Faerie QueeneJ. B. Lethbridge10 Notes on Reading in The Faerie Queene: From Moment to MomentGordon TeskeySelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Paul J. Hecht is associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central and the author of several articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth.J. B. Lethbridge lectures at Tübingen University and is general editor of the monograph series The Manchester Spenser.

Hecht and Lethbridge see themselves as spearheading a movement that will replace the orthodoxies of New Criticism (and its progeny, including New Historicism) with unorthodox—indeed, revolutionary—ways of reading Edmund Spenser’s poetry. . . .[The book beings ]with Syrithe Pugh’s superb account of how Spenser imitates Virgil. Every Spenserian will want to read the excellent middle section, 'Spenser and Music,' with its complementary essays by David Scott Wilson-Okamura and Gavin Alexander. . . .The promised 'new era of Spenser scholarship' begins to take shape in the final section ('Meter/Moment'), with Hecht’s essay 'Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and Aesthetics,' Lethbridge's extension of his case against 'expressivist' reading, and Gordon Teskey's bravura display on The Faerie Queene as 'a poem of moments.'. . . .Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• PrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Notes toward a New Spenser Paul J. Hecht Classical, Medieval, Material2 Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser’s Virgilian CareerSyrithe Pugh3 Spenser and the “Medieval” Past: A Question of DefinitionKathryn Walls4 Spenser and Book History Elisabeth ChaghafiSpenser and Music5 Music in Spenser David Scott Wilson-Okamura6 Spenser in Music Gavin AlexanderMeter/Moment7 Irreverent SpenserianaApril Bernard, K. Silem Mohammad8 Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and AestheticsPaul J. Hecht9 The Poetry of The Faerie QueeneJ. B. Lethbridge10 Notes on Reading in The Faerie Queene: From Moment to MomentGordon TeskeySelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Paul J. Hecht is associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central and the author of several articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth.J. B. Lethbridge lectures at Tübingen University and is general editor of the monograph series The Manchester Spenser.

Hecht and Lethbridge see themselves as spearheading a movement that will replace the orthodoxies of New Criticism (and its progeny, including New Historicism) with unorthodox—indeed, revolutionary—ways of reading Edmund Spenser’s poetry. . . .[The book beings ]with Syrithe Pugh’s superb account of how Spenser imitates Virgil. Every Spenserian will want to read the excellent middle section, 'Spenser and Music,' with its complementary essays by David Scott Wilson-Okamura and Gavin Alexander. . . .The promised 'new era of Spenser scholarship' begins to take shape in the final section ('Meter/Moment'), with Hecht’s essay 'Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and Aesthetics,' Lethbridge's extension of his case against 'expressivist' reading, and Gordon Teskey's bravura display on The Faerie Queene as 'a poem of moments.'. . . .Summing Up: Highly recommended.

• PrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Notes toward a New Spenser Paul J. Hecht Classical, Medieval, Material2 Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser’s Virgilian CareerSyrithe Pugh3 Spenser and the “Medieval” Past: A Question of DefinitionKathryn Walls4 Spenser and Book History Elisabeth ChaghafiSpenser and Music5 Music in Spenser David Scott Wilson-Okamura6 Spenser in Music Gavin AlexanderMeter/Moment7 Irreverent SpenserianaApril Bernard, K. Silem Mohammad8 Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and AestheticsPaul J. Hecht9 The Poetry of The Faerie QueeneJ. B. Lethbridge10 Notes on Reading in The Faerie Queene: From Moment to MomentGordon TeskeySelected BibliographyContributorsIndex