Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age by Cheney, Patrick

Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160061)

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Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age by Cheney, Patrick

Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

$25.00
Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age by Cheney, Patrick

Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The

Author: Patrick Cheney
ISBN-10: 0813160065
ISBN-13: 9780813160061
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
By Patrick Cheney
By Patrick Cheney
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Patrick Cheney, professor of English and comparative literature at Penn State University, is the author of Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career.

Lauren Silberman, professor of English at Baruch College-CUNY, is the author of Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of "The Faerie Queene."

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