Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity

by W. Maley

Overview

Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context. The author refuses to engage in the sterile opposition between apology and attack that has marred studies of Spenser and Ireland, seeking neither to savage nor to save, but rather, in a project of critical recovery, to salvage Spenser from the wreckage of Irish history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333629420
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/29/1997
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society Series , #14006
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Salvaging Spenser - 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text - Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland - Varieties of Englishness: Planting a New Culture Beyond the Pale - 'Who knowes not Arlo-hill?': Changing Places in The Faerie Queene - 'And nought but presed gras where she had Iyen': Royal Absenteeism and Viceregal Verses - How Milton and Some Contemporaries read the View - The View from Scotland: Combing the Celtic Fringe - Spensership: a Judicial Review - Select Bibliography: Spenser and Ireland - Notes - Index

Editorial Reviews

Avoiding apology and attack, Maley (English, U. of Glasgow) focuses on Spenser's (1552-99) formative experiences in early-modern Ireland. He examines such matters as the alleged censorship of the "View", the relationship between it and Book V of "The Faerie Queene", the Irish viceroyalty and the issue of absentee monarchism, the Munster Plantation, language and identity, and the limits of Anglo-Irishness. Some of the chapters have been published separately. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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