Richard Chamberlain

Radical Spenser

Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of detailed readings, Chamberlain proposes alternative strategies for interpreting Spenser's works, including a politicized "new aestheticism," ecocriticism, and pastoral theory. Chamberlain suggests that Spenser's texts demand a reading that is at once political and sensitive to aesthetic surprise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780748621927
• ISBN-10: 074862192X
• Artikelnr.: 21976904

Autorenporträt

Richard Chamberlain is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I Reading
1. 'The Essential Trick': Pastoral, New Historicism and the Aesthetic
II. Poetry
2. Spenser's 'Critic Pen' in The Shepheardes Calender
3. Ways In: The Pastoral Paratexts of The Faerie Queene
4. Spenser's mode of Transport: The Faerie Queene, Books II-IV
5. Political Poetry? The Faerie Queene, Books V-VI
III Environment
6. Green Spenser: Mutabilitie and Others
7. Spenser's Irish Environment: A View of the State of Ireland.