Spenser's life and the subject of biography

Anderson, Judith H. (Added Author). Cheney, Donald, 1932- (Added Author). Richardson, David A. (Added Author).

Summary: "On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first "life" of Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy, and anxiety. Over succeeding centuries, readers have tried to revise and elaborate this life with reference to a handful of surviving records and a wealth of dubiously pertinent historical fact and gossip. The nine essays in this volume examine the history of Spenser biography and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it to an audience newly sensitive to problems of artistic self-presentation."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0585251258
ISBN: 9780585251257
ISBN: 1558490507
ISBN: 9781558490505
ISBN: 1122054580
ISBN: 9781122054584
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215).
Formatted Contents Note:	Spenser's lives, Spenser's careers / Richard Rambuss -- Disenchanted elves: biography in the text of Faerie queene V / Jay Farness -- Factions and fictions: Spenser's reflections of and on Elizabethan politics / Vincent P. Carey and Clare L. Carroll -- "All his minde on honour fixed": the preferment of Edmund Spenser / Jean R. Brink -- Spenser and court humanism / F.J. Levy -- Questionable evidence in the Letters of 1580 between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser / Jon A. Quitslund -- Spenser's retrography: two episodes in post-Petrarchan bibliography / Joseph Loewenstein --Spenser (re)reading du Bellay: chronology and literary response / Anne Lake Prescott -- The earl of Cork's lute / David Lee Miller.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Electronic reproduction. Boston, Mass. San Francisco, Calif. : Open Content Alliance, 2014. Scanned as part of the Boston Library Consortium OCA Digitization Project by the UMass Amherst Libraries. Available in DjVu, PDF, black & white PDF, Flipbook, and .txt formats.
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Language Note:	English.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.