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Spenser's monstrous regiment : Elizabethan Ireland and the poetics of difference /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCabe, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Knowledge > Ireland.
Ireland > In literature.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Literature.
Ireland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beyond the Pale
  • pt. I. The imperial theme
  • 1. Arms and the woman
  • 2. Spenser and the rival poets
  • pt. II. 'Salvagesse sans finesse'
  • 3. 'Salvage nacion'
  • 4. 'Salvage knight'
  • pt. III. The Faerie Queene (1590)
  • 5. St. George for Ireland
  • 6. Sins of difference
  • 7. Noble britons, savage scyths
  • pt. IV. Dialogues of displacement
  • 8. Colin Clout's other island
  • 9. Irenius's mother tongue
  • pt. V. The Faerie Queene (1596)
  • 10. 'Friendships faultie guile'
  • 11. Poetic justice
  • 12. Savage courtesy
  • pt. VI. Spenser's Ireland 1609-1650
  • 13. Diana's spite
  • 14. The response to A View.