The Cambridge companion to Spenser /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 278 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12468149 |
| Summary: | The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 278 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511999178 0511999178 0521641993 9780521641999 0521645700 9780521645706 |