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Shakespeare and Spenser
Attractive Opposites
Inbunden, 2008
1291 kr
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Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by the experts, on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never …
European Erotic Romance
Philhellene Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics
Inbunden, 2010
1411 kr
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European Erotic Romance examines the Renaissance publication and translation of the ancient Greek erotic romances, and English adaptations of the genre by Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth. Providing fresh insight into the development of the novel, this study identifies the …
Celebrating Mutabilitie
Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
Av Jane Grogan
Inbunden, 2010
1291 kr
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This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-96). It brings together leading and …
Castles and Colonists
An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland
Inbunden, 2010
1224 kr
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Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish 'savages' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval …
Supplement of the Faery Queene
By Ralph Knevet
Av Christopher Burlinson, Andrew Zurcher
Inbunden, 2015
1366 kr
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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. …
Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis
A Context for the Faerie Queene
Inbunden, 2016
1411 kr
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Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large'. Spenser's allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis is the first …
Shakespeare and Spenser
Attractive opposites
Häftad, 2011
427 kr
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Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never before …
Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley
A Catholic Response to the Faerie Queene
Av Susannah Brietz Monta, Susannah Brietz Monta
Inbunden, 2016
1493 kr
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Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England’s …
Art of the Faerie Queene
Inbunden, 2018
1411 kr
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The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional …
Literary and Visual Ralegh
Inbunden, 2013
1264 kr
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This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. Some of the essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and as he is represented in paintings, …
Spenserian Satire
A Tradition of Indirection
Av Rachel Hile
Inbunden, 2016
1291 kr
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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 …
Concordance to the Rhymes of the Faerie Queene
Av Richard Danson Brown, J. B. Lethbridge
Inbunden, 2014
1411 kr
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This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser’s epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem: the rhymes which he used to structure its intricate stanzas. As well as the main concordance to the rhymes, the volume features a …
Monsters and the Poetic Imagination in the Faerie Queene
'Most Ugly Shapes, and Horrible Aspects'
Av Maik Goth
Inbunden, 2015
1291 kr
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Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composites, monstrous humans and other creatures. This monograph is the first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic …
Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance
An Anthology
Inbunden, 2016
1291 kr
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Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry, with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, …
Spenser and Virgil
The Pastoral Poems
Av Syrithe Pugh
Inbunden, 2016
1411 kr
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Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant …
Burley Manuscript
Inbunden, 2016
1493 kr
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The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are …
Literary and Visual Ralegh
Häftad, 2017
427 kr
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This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. Some of the essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and as he is represented in paintings, …
Spenserian Satire
A Tradition of Indirection
Av Rachel Hile
E-bok, 2017
62 kr
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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 …
Renaissance Psychologies
Spenser and Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2017
1370 kr
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A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more. …
Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature
Av Kathleen Miller, Crawford Gribben
Inbunden, 2017
1461 kr
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Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin. Through detailed case studies of print and literature in Renaissance Dublin, the volume covers innovative new ground, including quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, unique insight …
Spenser and Donne
Thinking Poets
Av Yulia Ryzhik
Inbunden, 2019
957 kr
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The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the ‘metaphysical’ poets of the seventeenth century. This collection of essays, part of The Manchester …
Spenser and Virgil
The Pastoral Poems
Av Syrithe Pugh
Häftad, 2020
418 kr
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Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant …
Spenserian Satire
A Tradition of Indirection
Av Rachel Hile
E-bok, 2017
62 kr
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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 …
Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance
Inbunden, 2018
1203 kr
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This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study …
Comic Spenser
Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene
Inbunden, 2020
1411 kr
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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria …
Comic Spenser
Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene
E-bok, 2020
319 kr
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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria …
Comic Spenser
Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene
E-bok, 2020
328 kr
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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria …
William Shakespeare and John Donne
Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry
Inbunden, 2019
1372 kr
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This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. It shows how the soul becomes a linking element between the genres of poetry and drama, and how poetry becomes dramatic whenever the soul is at its focus. This double movement can be …
William Shakespeare and John Donne
Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry
E-bok, 2019
1394 kr
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This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. It shows how the soul becomes a linking element between the genres of poetry and drama, and how poetry becomes dramatic whenever the soul is at its focus. This double movement can be …
William Shakespeare and John Donne
Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry
E-bok, 2019
1394 kr
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This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. It shows how the soul becomes a linking element between the genres of poetry and drama, and how poetry becomes dramatic whenever the soul is at its focus. This double movement can be …
