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ISBN: 9780198183457

ISBN-10: 0198183453

ISBN-13: 9780198183457

Edition: 1997

Authors: Andrew Hadfield

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Spenser's Irish Experience is the first sustained critical work to argue that Edmund Spenser's perception and fragmented representation of Ireland shadows the whole narrative of his major work, The Faerie Queene, traditionally regarded as one of the finest achievements of the English Renaissance. The poem has often been read in specifically English contexts but, as Hadfield argues, demands to be read in terms of England's expanding colonial hegemony within the British Isles and the ensuing fear that such national ambition would actually lead to the destruction of England's post-Reformation legacy. Spenser should be seen less as an English writer and more as a new English writer in Ireland,…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Spenser, Colonialism, and National Identity



The Contexts of the 1590s



That they themselves had wrought: The Politics of A View of the Present State of Ireland



Ripping up ancestries: The Use of Myth in A View



Reading the Allegory of The Faerie Queene



The Spoiling of Princes: Artegall thwarted, Calidore Confused



All shall changed be: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie and the Sense of an Endling


Appendix: Works Mentioning Ireland in the Title Entered into the Stationers' Register During Elizabeth's Reign


Select Bibliography


Index