A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies

This book provides an authoritative guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate. It covers key topics and provides histories for all of the primary texts. Some of today's most prominent Spenser scholars offer accounts of debates on the poet, from the Renaissance to the present day. Essential for those producing new research on Spenser.

Auteur
ELIZABETH J. BELLAMY Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USA PATRICK CHENEY Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University, USA ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Sussex, UK JOHN N. KING Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University, USA THERESA M. KRIER Professor of English Literature at Macalester College, USA RAPHAEL LYNE Fellow of New Hall and Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK RICHARD A. MCCABE Fellow of Merton College and Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, UK WILLY MALEY Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID LEE MILLER Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT Helen Altschul Goodheart Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA ANDREW ZURCHER Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, UK

Contenu
A Note on Quotation Notes on the Contributors Brief Chronology of Spenser's Life Introduction; B.van Es Life; P.Cheney Politics; A.Hadfield Religion; J.N.King Gender; E.J.Bellamy Sources; A.L.Prescott Works Published before 1589; B.van Es The Faerie Queene (1590); D.L.Miller Shorter Verse Published 1590-5; R.A.McCabe The Faerie Queene (1596); T.M.Krier A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596; 1633); W.Maley Shorter Verse After 1595; R.Lyne Texts and Resources; A.Zurcher Works Cited Index