Spenser's life and the subject of biography / edited by Judith H. Anderson, Donald Cheney, David A. Richardson.

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TextSeries: Massachusetts studies in early modern culturePublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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0585251258
9780585251257
1122054580
9781122054584

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821/.3 B 20

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Contents:

Spenser's lives, Spenser's careers / Richard Rambuss -- Disenchanted elves: biography in the text of Faerie queene V / Jay Farness -- Factions and fictions: Spenser's reflections of and on Elizabethan politics / Vincent P. Carey and Clare L. Carroll -- "All his minde on honour fixed": the preferment of Edmund Spenser / Jean R. Brink -- Spenser and court humanism / F.J. Levy -- Questionable evidence in the Letters of 1580 between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser / Jon A. Quitslund -- Spenser's retrography: two episodes in post-Petrarchan bibliography / Joseph Loewenstein --Spenser (re)reading du Bellay: chronology and literary response / Anne Lake Prescott -- The earl of Cork's lute / David Lee Miller.

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Review: "On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first "life" of Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy, and anxiety. Over succeeding centuries, readers have tried to revise and elaborate this life with reference to a handful of surviving records and a wealth of dubiously pertinent historical fact and gossip. The nine essays in this volume examine the history of Spenser biography and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it to an audience newly sensitive to problems of artistic self-presentation."--BOOK JACKET.

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"On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first "life" of Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy, and anxiety. Over succeeding centuries, readers have tried to revise and elaborate this life with reference to a handful of surviving records and a wealth of dubiously pertinent historical fact and gossip. The nine essays in this volume examine the history of Spenser biography and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it to an audience newly sensitive to problems of artistic self-presentation."--BOOK JACKET.

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