Edmund Spenser and Animal Life

Rachel Stenner is senior lecturer in Literature 1350–1660 at the University of Sussex. She has published on authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, George Gascoigne, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, and William Baldwin. She is currently coediting Baldwin’s literary writings for publication with Boydell and Brewer.Abigail Shinn is lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning (Palgrave, 2018). She has published work in the fields of conversion studies, early modern popular culture, drama, and Spenser studies. She is currently working on a new book project: Spenser’s Popular Voices: Culture and Play.

• Chapter 1. Introduction : Edmund Spenser and Animal Studies.- Chapter 2. Did Edmund Dream of Shorthaired Sheep?.- Chapter 3. Spenser, Marine Life, and the Metaphysics of Extinction: Overfishing and the True Monsters of the Deep.- Chapter 4. The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67.- Chapter 5. Errour’s Repercussions: Dragons, Race, and Animality in The Faerie Queene.- Chapter 6. Spenser’s ‘apish crue’: Aping in Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale.- Chapter 7. Scorned Little Creatures?: Insects and Genre in Complaints (1591).- Chapter 8. Spenser’s Parenthetical Butterflies.- Chapter 9. Good to think [with]’: Spenser’s Animals Against Materiality.- Chapter 10. A Fruitful-Headed Beast?: Rhyme in The Faerie Queene.- Chapter 11. Coursers and Courses in The Faerie Queene.- Chapter 12. Spenser’s Wings.- Chapter 13. Coda.