Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience
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Andrew Hadfield
Price: £51.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818345-7
Publication date: 29 May 1997
240 pages, 1 map, 216x138 mm
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| - 'successful contributions to a re-positioning of Spenser's writing. ... What is most compelling here is the way the debate between Irenius and Eudoxus is so clearly shown to be constructed from a range of material which Spenser had to hand ... contribute enormously to current debats about national identity in the early-modern period, establish new lines of enquiry, and enrich existing
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- 'Hadfield's book, both in its content and methodology, is best regarded as a very clever and useful synthesis' - Paul Stevens, Queen's University, Jrnl of English and Germanic Philology, July 99
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| Description | | - Hadfields book will be of interest not only to all readers of Renaissance literature, but also to students of early modern Ireland, Britain, colonial and national identity, and theories of reading narrative.
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| 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
, traditionally regarded as one of the finest achievements of the English Renaissance. 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 lead to the destruction of England's post-Reformation legacy. Spenser should be seen less as an English writer and more as a new English writer in Ireland, his prose and poetry expressing the hopes and fears of his class. Where A View of
the Present State of Ireland
attempts to provide a violent political solution to England's Irish problem, The Faerie Queene
exposes the apocalyptic fear that there may be no solution at all.
The book contains an analysis of Spenser's life on the Munster plantation, readings of the political rhetoric and antiquarian discourse of A View of the Present State of Ireland
, and three
chapters which argue the case that the apparently Anglocentric allegory of The Faerie Queene
reveals a land gradually--but clearly--transformed into its Irish other. Spenser emerges from this study as a writer whose experience in Ireland rendered him implacably opposed to the vacillations of his English monarch.
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Readership: Students, scholars, and general readers of English literature; Irish literature, history, and politics; Renaissance literature.
| Contents |
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Spenser, Colonialism, and National Identity
1.
The Contexts of the 1590s
2.
That they themselves had wrought: The Politics of A View of the Present State of Ireland
3.
Ripping up ancestries: The Use of Myth in A View
4.
Reading the Allegory of The Faerie Queene
5.
The Spoiling of Princes: Artegall thwarted, Calidore Confused
6.
All shall changed be: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie and the Sense of an Endling
Appendix: Works Mentioning Ireland in the Title Entered into the Stationers' Register During Elizabeth's Reign
Select Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Andrew Hadfield, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Wales
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