Enabling Engagements: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of PatronageMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 4 квіт. 2002 р. - 192 стор. Enabling Engagements contributes to current critical debates regarding early modern subjectivity and early modern cultural capital. In stressing the boldness of Edmund Spenser's poetics of patronage, Judith Owens shows that Elizabethans could and did exercise agency within a wide range of institutions. By consistently challenging assumptions of courtly hegemony in early modern society, Owens suggests a new appraisal of the processes of cultural commodification. Enabling Engagements challenges conventional assessments of Spenser as court-centred and of patronal relations in the early modern period as asymmetrical and prescriptive. Owens demonstrates that Spenser exercised a vigorous sense of agency within the close quarters of patronage and courtly culture, fashioning his laureate's role and envisioning nationhood in resistance to the centre. She shows that his independence from court-centred values and tropes informed his poetics from the start of his publishing career, not just as a result of increasing disillusionment with the court. Owens develops detailed readings of Spenser's poetry and his paratextual material in The Shepheardes Calender, the 1590 Faerie Queene, and Complaints, providing contexts that are both broader and more varied than those usually accorded Spenser's poetry. She extends the horizons of The Faerie Queene in particular to include not only court and sovereign but also London, the material conditions of early modern publishing, and Ireland. Bringing together concerns usually approached individually, she shows us a Spenser who is neither the careerist of much recent criticism nor the Elizabethan propagandist of long-standing custom. |
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... Especially through his close engagement with Ralegh, the foremost patron of the 1590 Faerie Queene, Spenser offers a reformist vision of empire which runs athwart official Tudor designs. That Spenser repeatedly stakes his ground so ...
... Especially through his close engagement with Ralegh, the foremost patron of the 1590 Faerie Queene, Spenser offers a reformist vision of empire which runs athwart official Tudor designs. That Spenser repeatedly stakes his ground so ...
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... especially in The Shepheardes Calender, Spenser constructs personal autonomy and inwardness largely in resistance to the public aspects of laureateship. That Spenser feels extreme blameworthiness would be his were he to neglect Lady ...
... especially in The Shepheardes Calender, Spenser constructs personal autonomy and inwardness largely in resistance to the public aspects of laureateship. That Spenser feels extreme blameworthiness would be his were he to neglect Lady ...
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... especially, Irish. That such nuances inflect a sonnet forming just one cog in a larger dedicatory program helps point the complexity – indeed, even the suppleness – of Spenser's patronal relations. Recent critical attention to literary ...
... especially, Irish. That such nuances inflect a sonnet forming just one cog in a larger dedicatory program helps point the complexity – indeed, even the suppleness – of Spenser's patronal relations. Recent critical attention to literary ...
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... especially productive. Again, the relevance to Spenser emerges both generally, in the way just sketched, and specifically, in that Spenser's literary forests often assume political valences and in that Spenser's landholding in Ireland ...
... especially productive. Again, the relevance to Spenser emerges both generally, in the way just sketched, and specifically, in that Spenser's literary forests often assume political valences and in that Spenser's landholding in Ireland ...
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... especially advanced by the Bisham entertainment. Property and marriage matters occasionally required Lady Russell to deal directly with Queen Elizabeth. The lease of Donnington Castle from the Crown, which Lady Russell felt she had to ...
... especially advanced by the Bisham entertainment. Property and marriage matters occasionally required Lady Russell to deal directly with Queen Elizabeth. The lease of Donnington Castle from the Crown, which Lady Russell felt she had to ...
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The Shepheardes Calender | 40 |
Commendatory Verses | 69 |
The Dedicatory Sonnets | 88 |
Ralegh in The Faerie Queene iii | 111 |
Conclusion | 133 |
Notes | 143 |
Works Cited | 163 |
Index | 177 |
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