Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser write by Christopher Burlinson. This book was released on 2006. Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene. This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene, and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it.It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality (which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama) must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms theneed to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism. Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Spenser and the romance of space write by Tamsin Badcoe. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Edmund Spenser and the romance of space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.
Spenser's Legal Language
Spenser's Legal Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spenser's Legal Language write by Andrew Zurcher. This book was released on 2007. Spenser's Legal Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative readings how Spenser figured the nation both descriptively and prescriptively.
The Poem, the Garden, and the World
The Poem, the Garden, and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poem, the Garden, and the World write by Jim Ellis. This book was released on 2023-02-15. The Poem, the Garden, and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of a spectacular new art form—the Renaissance pleasure garden—which immersed visitors in a political allegory to be read by their bodies’ movements. The Poem, the Garden, and the World traces the Renaissance-era relationship of place and movement from garden to poetry to a confluence of both. Starting with the Earl of Leicester’s pleasure garden for Queen Elizabeth’s 1575 progress visit, Ellis explores the political function of the entertainment landscape that plunged visitors into a fully realized golden world—a mythical new form to represent the nation. Next, he turns to one of that garden’s visitors: Philip Sidney, who would later contend that literature’s golden worlds work to move us as we move through them, reorienting readers toward a belief in English empire. This idea would later be illustrated by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queen; as with the pleasure garden, both characters and readers are refashioned as they traverse the poem’s dreamlike space. Exploring the artistic creations of three of the era’s major figures, Ellis argues for a performative understanding of literature, in which readers are transformed as they navigate poetic worlds.
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book write by Hazel Wilkinson. This book was released on 2017-11-30. Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–6) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every major writer of the century, from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth. What was it like to read Spenser in the eighteenth century? Who made Spenserian books, and how did their owners use and interpret them? The first comprehensive study of all of the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser addresses these questions through bibliographical analysis, and through examination of the history of the book and of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Within these contexts, Hazel Wilkinson provides new information about the production, contents, texts, and reception of the eighteenth-century editions of Spenser, to illuminate how his cultural presence became so far-reaching. With each chapter structured around a major edition of Spenser's work, this volume provides a timely addition to arguments about the nature of literary history and the growing cult of great writers of the past.
