Edmund SpenserThis collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work, from early literary experiments such as The Shepeardes Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work,The Fairie Queene. The introduction provides an overview of critical responses to Spenser, setting his work and the debates which it has generated in their perspective contexts: new historicist, post-structural, psychoanalytic and feminist. His study also covers the critical responses of leading British, Irish and American scholars. |
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Edmund Spenser: A Life
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form in Renaissance England | 23 |
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| Título | Edmund Spenser Critical Readers Series Edmund Spenser, Andrew Hadfield Longman critical readers |
| Editor | Andrew Hadfield |
| Edición | ilustrada, anotada |
| Editor | Longman, 1996 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0582247365, 9780582247369 |
| N.º de páginas | 240 páginas |
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