Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780199282043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 328 str.

Richard A. McCabe

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Up until now, like the interlocutors in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland [1596], scholars have excluded Irish voices from critical dialogue upon the poet's life and writings. This book unequivocally and magisterially redresses this imbalance...McCabe's book has set a new standard for Spenser scholarship, particularly, though not solely, that concerned with Ireland. Subsequent critical works on Spenser's Irish contexts simply cannot ignore the field of reference opened up here.

O autorze

Richard McCabe is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford.