A provocative approach to a famous figure in English poetry and to the relationship of literature to biography - both the poet's and the critic's own. Gary Waller, known for accessibly combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with Renaissance poetry, provides an intriguing overv...

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1. Verfasser:	Waller, Gary 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke [u.a.] Macmillan 1994
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:	Macmillan literary lives
Schlagworte:	Spenser, Edmund <1552?-1599> Spenser, Edmund > 1552-1599 Poets, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	A provocative approach to a famous figure in English poetry and to the relationship of literature to biography - both the poet's and the critic's own. Gary Waller, known for accessibly combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with Renaissance poetry, provides an intriguing overview of the period's most praised poet. Examining Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of his poetry's production - factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the 'places' of its production - court, church, nation, colony - he also writes movingly of the 'place' the biographer occupies in the construction of a 'literary life'. The book includes chapters on Spenser's poetry and career, including an original account of the gender politics of his work and his difficult position between Ireland and England, the 'homes' about which he held increasingly painful feelings.
Beschreibung:	XI, 211 S.
ISBN:	0333523571 033352358X