{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-edmund-spenser-9780198709671","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser","description":"Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser \u003c\/em\u003eexamine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former\u003cbr\u003ecriticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. Section I, 'Contexts', elucidates the circumstances in which the poetry and prose were written, and suggests some of the major political, social, and professional issues with which the work engages. Section 2, 'Works', presents a series of new readings of\u003cbr\u003ethe canon informed by the most recent scholarship. Section 3, 'Poetic Craft', provides a detailed analysis of what Spenser termed the poet's 'cunning', the linguistic, rhetorical, and stylistic skills that distinguish his writing. Section 4, 'Sources and Influences', examines a wide range of\u003cbr\u003esubtexts, intertexts, and analogues that contextualise the works within the literary conventions, traditions and genres upon which Spenser draws and not infrequently subverts. Section 5, 'Reception', grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors, writers, painters, \u003cbr\u003eand book-illustrators, while also attempting to identify the most salient and influential strands in the critical tradition. The volume serves as both companion and herald to the Oxford University Press edition of \u003cem\u003eSpenser's Complete Works. \u003c\/em\u003eNo 'agreed' view of Spenser emerges from this work or is\u003cbr\u003eintended to. The contributors approach the texts from a variety of viewpoints and employ diverse methods of critical interpretation with a view to stimulating informed discussion and future scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard A. McCabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198709671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard A. McCabe \u003c\/strong\u003eis Fellow of Merton College, and Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He was elected FBA in 2007. He is author of \u003cem\u003eJoseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), \u003cem\u003eThe Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerie Queene'\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003eIncest, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDrama, and Nature's Law 1550-1700\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), and \u003cem\u003eSpenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). He has edited \u003cem\u003eEdmund Spenser: The Shorter Poems for Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e (1999). With Howard Erskine-Hill he co-edited \u003cem\u003ePresenting Poetry: Composition, Publication, Reception\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), and with David Womersley \u003cem\u003eLiterary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context presented to Howard Erskine-Hill\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39932101066867,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f92e77d9-6beb-4782-b44f-cf52f3a0f65e.jpg?v=1647789895","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-edmund-spenser-9780198709671","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}