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. 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. 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."
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"Hadfield's well-researched analysis presents valuable insights into how Spenser's Irish experience influence The Faerie Queene."--Choice
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THROUGHOUT his literary career, Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) encouraged his readers to identify him with his alter ego, Colin Clout, who appeared sporadically in his poetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
saluage man, saluage nation, salvage nation, salvage man, home againe, dedicatory sonnets, two cantos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New English, Edmund Spenser, Red Cross Knight, Spenser's Irish, Lord Grey, Munster Plantation, Old English, Colin Clouts, Blatant Beast, English Renaissance, Irish Crisis, Geoffrey of Monmouth, New York, Arlo Hill, Andrew Hadfield, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Six Bookes, British Isles, New World, Nicholas Canny, Nine Years War, Spenser Chronology, Ciaran Brady, New Haven New!
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THROUGHOUT his literary career, Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) encouraged his readers to identify him with his alter ego, Colin Clout, who appeared sporadically in his poetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
saluage man, saluage nation, salvage nation, salvage man, home againe, dedicatory sonnets, two cantos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New English, Edmund Spenser, Red Cross Knight, Spenser's Irish, Lord Grey, Munster Plantation, Old English, Colin Clouts, Blatant Beast, English Renaissance, Irish Crisis, Geoffrey of Monmouth, New York, Arlo Hill, Andrew Hadfield, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Six Bookes, British Isles, New World, Nicholas Canny, Nine Years War, Spenser Chronology, Ciaran Brady, New Haven New!
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- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 89 pages
- Virgin Mother Maiden Queen by Helen (Lect Hackett on 6 pages
- Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook on 6 pages
- Spenser in Ireland by Pauline Henley on 6 pages
- Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988: The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures, 1988 (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Stephen J. Greenblatt on 4 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Andrew Hadfield on page 36, page 58, and page 59
- Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Barbara Fuchs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spenser's Forms of History: Elizabethan Poetry and the 'State of Present Time' by Bart Van Es in Front Flap
- Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture by Stephen Howe in Back Matter
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 451
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