Front cover image for Spenser studies : a Renaissance poetry annual, XVII

Spenser studies : a Renaissance poetry annual, XVII

This volume looks at: the life of Virgil and the aspiration of the ""New Poet""; the ""secret faith"" of Spenser's Saracens; despair and the proportion of the self; despair and the composition of the Self; succession anxieties and the wandering suitor in Spenser's ""Faerie Queene""; and more.
Print Book, English, ©2003
AMS Press, New York, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 306 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 24 cm
9780404192174, 0404192173
52525295
The life of Virgil and the aspiration of the "new poet" / M.L. Donnelly
The "secret faith" of Spenser's Saracens / Benedict S. Robinson
Despair and the proportion of the self / Andrew Escobedo
Despair and the compositionn of the self / Beth Quitslund
"Just time expired" : succession anxieties and the wandering suitor in Spenser's Faerie queene / Ty Buckman
Busirane's place : the house of rhetoric / Judith H. Anderson
Distressing Irena : gender, conquest, and justice in Book V of The faerie queene / Mary R. Bowman
Spenser, Ralegh, and the language of allegory / Lin Kelsey
"Worme-eaten and full of canker holes" : materializing memory in The faerie queene and in Lingua / Alan Stewart and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. "Beeleve this butt a fiction" : female authorship, narrative undoing, and the limits of romance in the second part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Claire R. Kinney
Forum. Republicanism, nostalgia, and the crowd / David Scott Wilson-Okamura ; Was Spenser really a republican after all? A reply to David Scott Wilson-Okamura / Andrew Hadfield
Gleanings. Spenser's dedicatory sonnets to the 1590 Faerie queene : an interpretation of the blank sonnet / Richard McNamara ; Robert Parsons/Richard Verstegen and the calling-in of Mother Hubbards tale / Andrew Hadfield