In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart Van Es presents an engaging study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of "forms of history"--chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology, political prophecy, and others--in both his poetry and his prose, and assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry.
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"Essential for all Spenserians, Bart van Es's book has much to recommend it to students of early modern Britain."--Times Literary Supplement
"In his graceful and important book, Bart Van Es sets out to read Spenser historically.... Van Es draws impressively on historically-oriented Renaissance studies of the last twenty years or so while bringing to bear sensitive reading of Spenser's own work as the poet grapples with the various modes of understanding history available in Elizabethan England.... Spenser's Forms of History provides an extremely useful overview of modes of Elizabethan historical thinking and provocative guide to thinking about Spenser in relation to multiform Elizabethan historicism."--Renaissance Quarterly
"Offers some rich and original readings of Spenser's engagements with history, including a fascinating account of the bizarre episode of the chamber of Eumnestes in book 2 of the Faerie Queene."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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Bart Van Es is a Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford.
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If there is one exemplary point in The Faerie Queene that foregrounds the reading of history it is in Book II, Cantos ix-x. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Faerie Queene, Society of Antiquaries, Presence of the Past, Colin Clout, Edmund Spenser, Ireland's Conquest, Cambridge University Press, New York, Mutability Cantos, Princeton University Press, British Library, Gabriel Harvey, Public Sphere, The Faene Queene, Holinshed's Chronicles, Lord Grey, Old Testament, The Shepheardes Calender, Andrew Hadfield, Arlo Hill, Clarendon Press, Earl of Leicester, Isis Church, John Harvey, New Haven New!
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If there is one exemplary point in The Faerie Queene that foregrounds the reading of history it is in Book II, Cantos ix-x. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Faerie Queene, Society of Antiquaries, Presence of the Past, Colin Clout, Edmund Spenser, Ireland's Conquest, Cambridge University Press, New York, Mutability Cantos, Princeton University Press, British Library, Gabriel Harvey, Public Sphere, The Faene Queene, Holinshed's Chronicles, Lord Grey, Old Testament, The Shepheardes Calender, Andrew Hadfield, Arlo Hill, Clarendon Press, Earl of Leicester, Isis Church, John Harvey, New Haven New!
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- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 27 pages
- Edmund Spenser (Longman Critical Readers) by Andrew Hadfield on 5 pages
- The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on page 35, page 73, and Back Matter
- View of the Present State of Ireland by W. L. Renwick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation (Harvard English Studies) by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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