Jennifer Klein Morrison and Matthew Greenfield
Ashgate
Hardback
216
2000
Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach Spenser?s work from that new perspective rethinking his contribution as a theorist of culture in light of his poetics. The essays in the collection begin with close readings of Spenser?s writings and end by challenging the ethnographic allegories that shape our knowledge of early modern England. In this book Spenser is proven to be not only a powerful theorist of allegory and poetics but also a profound and subtle ethnographer of England and Ireland.
Ashgate
Hardback
216
2000
Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach Spenser?s work from that new perspective rethinking his contribution as a theorist of culture in light of his poetics. The essays in the collection begin with close readings of Spenser?s writings and end by challenging the ethnographic allegories that shape our knowledge of early modern England. In this book Spenser is proven to be not only a powerful theorist of allegory and poetics but also a profound and subtle ethnographer of England and Ireland.