Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of DifferenceSpenser'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. |
Contents
Beyond the Pale | 1 |
The Imperial Theme | 7 |
Spenser and the Rival Poets | 28 |
Salvagesse sans finesse | 57 |
Salvage Knight | 79 |
The Faerie Queene 1590 | 101 |
Sins of Difference | 121 |
Noble Britons Savage Scyths | 142 |
Ireniuss Mother Tongue | 177 |
The Faerie Queene 1596 | 197 |
Poetic Justice | 213 |
Savage Courtesy | 232 |
Spensers Ireland 16091650 | 253 |
The Response to A View | 270 |
Primary Sources | 288 |
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