Spenser's Monstrous Regiment Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference
by McCabe, Richard A.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-12-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Spenser's Monstrous Regiment is a stimulating and scholarly account of how the experience of living and writing in Ireland qualified Spenser's attitude towards female "regiment" and challenged his notions of English nationhood. Including a trenchant discussion of the influence of colonialism upon the structure, themes, imagery, and language of Spenser's poetry, this is the first major study of Spenser's canon to engage with primary Gaelic materials in its assessment of his relationship with native Irish and Old English culture.
Author Biography
Richard McCabe is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Beyond the PaleI | |
| The Imperial Theme | |
| Arms and the Woman | |
| Spenser and the Rival PoetsII. 'Salvagesse sans finesse | |
| 'Salvage Nacion' | |
| 'Salvage Knight'III. The Faerie Queene (1590) | |
| St George for Ireland | |
| Sins of Difference | |
| Noble Britons, Savage ScythsIV. Dialogues of Displacement | |
| Colin Clout's Other Island | |
| Irenius's Mother TongueV. The Faerie Queene (1596) | |
| 'Friendships Faultie Guile' | |
| Poetic Justice | |
| Savage CourtesyVI. Spenser's Ireland 1609-1650 | |
| Diana's Spite | |
| The Response to A View | |
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