Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl

by Andrew Hadfield

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198183453
• ISBN13: 9780198183457
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"