http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xxiii, 826 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work & the social & intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, & metre, the poet's use of sources & subtexts, & the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, & visual artists.
Contexts. Spenser's life / Willy Maley ; Spenser and religion / Claire McEachern ; Spenser and politics / David Baker ; Spenser's secretarial career / Andrew Zurcher & Chris Burlinson ; Spenser, plantation, and government policy / Ciaran Brady ; Spenser's patrons and publishers / Wayne Erickson ; Spenser's biographers / Paul D. Stegner -- Works. A theatre for worldlings (1569) / Tom MacFaul ; The shepheardes calender (1579) / Clare Kinney ; Letters (1580) / Joseph Campana ; The faerie queene (1590) / Linda Gregerson ; Complaints and Daphnaida (1591) / Mark Rasmussen ; Colin Clouts come home againe, Astrophel, and The doleful lay of Clorinda (1595) / Patrick Cheney ; Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595) / Roland Greene ; The faerie queene (1596) / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy ; Fowre hymnes and Prothalamion (1596) / David Lee Miller ; A vewe of the presente state of Ireland (1596, 1633) / Elizabeth Fowler ; Two cantos of mutabilitie (1609) / Gordon Teskey ; "Lost Works", suppositious pieces, and continuations / Joseph Black and Lisa Celovsky -- Poetic craft. Spenser's language(s) : linguistic theory and poetic diction / Dorothy Stephens ; Spenser's metrics / Jeff Dolven ; Spenser's genres / Colin Burrow ; Spenser and rhetoric / Peter Mack ; Allegory, emblem, and Symbol / Kenneth Borris ; Authorial self-presentation / Richard A. McCabe -- Sources and influences. Spenser and the Bible / Carol V. Kaske ; Spenser and Classical literature / Syrithe Pugh ; Spenser and Classical philosophy / Andrew Escobedo ; Spenser and History / Bart van Es ; Spenser, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance / Andrew King ; Spenser and neo-Latin literature / Lee Piepho ; Spenser and sixteenth-century poetics / Elizabeth Heale ; Spenser and Italian literature / Jason Lawrence ; Spenser and French literature / Anne Lake Prescott -- Reception. Spenser's textual history / Joe Loewenstein ; Spenser's literary influence / Michelle O'Callaghan ; Spenser and the visual arts / Claire Preston ; The formalist tradition / David Wilson-Okamura ; The historicist tradition in Spenser studies / John D. Staines ; Spenser and gender studies / Theresa Krier ; Psychoanalytical criticism / Elizabeth D. Harvey ; Postcolonial Spenser / Andrew Hadfield.
Includes bibliographical references and index.