Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160065
• ISBN13: 9780813160061
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher