Edmund Spenser and the Romance of Space

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Tamsin Badcoe

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Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser’s writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser’s handling of mixed genres.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-19
Mått138 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieManchester Spenser
Antal sidor344
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526139672
UtmärkelserWinner of Winner of the 2020 University English Book Prize 2021 (UK)

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List of illustrationsTextual noteIntroductionPart I: Orientations1 Strange paths and perspective glasses2 Movement and measurement3 Feyned no where acts4 Compassing desire: cosmography and chorographyPart II: Environments5 Seamarks and coastal waters6 Wetlands and Spenser’s ‘personal curvature’7 Spenser’s insular fictionsAfterwordBibliographyIndex

'In this fascinating, interdisciplinary study Tamsin Badcoe reads Spenser’s works alongside the practical arts of cosmography and navigation and considers the poet’s green, muddy and coastal settings in relation to the imagined spaces of William Cuningham, John Dee and Sir Walter Ralegh. By bringing together literary, cultural and historical geographers she explores how the imagination contributes to early modern developments in geographical knowledge. [The book] contributes vitally to the knowledge of early modern literatures and environments ... This complex, highly nuanced analysis of literary and geographical works by Spenser and other makers of the spatial imaginary offers new, compelling readings of The Faerie Queene, ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’, A View of the Present State of Ireland, and the ‘Mutabilitie Cantos’.... Badcoe’s brilliant inquiry, which charts the labyrinthine course of literary and geographical terrain and plumbs the depths of the English and Irish seas with literal and figurative navigational tools, is well worth a careful read.'Jennifer C. Vaught, The Spenser Review