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Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-96). It brings together leading and emerging Spenser scholars from the US, UK, Ireland and India to asses and assert the significance of the Mutabilitie Cantos to Spenser’s work ad thought. All eleven essays are origional and specially commissioning for this substantial volume with contributions from James Nohrnberg, Gordon Teskey and Judith Anderson. Although broadly historical, in keeping the principles with The Manchester Spenser series, the collections encompasses an impressive variety of approaches and interests, ranging from historical allegory and material, political, philosophical and literary contexts of the Mutabilitie Cantos, as well as their commanding place in early modern English and Irish literature and history. The collection also includes a full bibliography of scholarly criticism of the Mutabilitie Cantos.

This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, to scholars of Spenser and scholars of renaissance studies

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Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-96). It brings together leading and emerging Spenser scholars from the US, UK, Ireland and India to asses and assert the significance of the Mutabilitie Cantos to Spenser’s work ad thought. All eleven essays are origional and specially commissioning for this substantial volume with contributions from James Nohrnberg, Gordon Teskey and Judith Anderson. Although broadly historical, in keeping the principles with The Manchester Spenser series, the collections encompasses an impressive variety of approaches and interests, ranging from historical allegory and material, political, philosophical and literary contexts of the Mutabilitie Cantos, as well as their commanding place in early modern English and Irish literature and history. The collection also includes a full bibliography of scholarly criticism of the Mutabilitie Cantos.

This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, to scholars of Spenser and scholars of renaissance studies

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Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos

Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos

Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos

Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos

Overview

This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-96). It brings together leading and emerging Spenser scholars from the US, UK, Ireland and India to asses and assert the significance of the Mutabilitie Cantos to Spenser’s work ad thought. All eleven essays are origional and specially commissioning for this substantial volume with contributions from James Nohrnberg, Gordon Teskey and Judith Anderson. Although broadly historical, in keeping the principles with The Manchester Spenser series, the collections encompasses an impressive variety of approaches and interests, ranging from historical allegory and material, political, philosophical and literary contexts of the Mutabilitie Cantos, as well as their commanding place in early modern English and Irish literature and history. The collection also includes a full bibliography of scholarly criticism of the Mutabilitie Cantos.

This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, to scholars of Spenser and scholars of renaissance studies

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719082245
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 07/01/2010
Series: The Manchester Spenser
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jane Grogan is a lecturer in the school of English, Drama and Film at UniversityCollege Dublin

Table of Contents

List of figures vii

List of contributors viii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction Jane Grogan 1

1 Night thoughts on Mutability Gordon Teskey 24

2 The printing of the Cantos of Mutabilitie in 1609 Andrew Zurcher 40

3 Spenser's Mutability song: conclusion or transition" Robert Lanier Reid 61

4 Supplementing Spenser's supplement, a masque in several scenes: eight literary-critical meditations on a Renaissance numen called Mutabilitie James Nohrnberg 85

5 Native Irish property and propriety in the Faunus episode and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe Thomas Herron 136

6 Mutability, metamorphosis and the nature of power Supriya Chaudhuri 178

7 Spenser's 'Legend of Constancie': Book VII and the ethical reader Christopher Burlinson 201

8 Mutabilitie's Lucretian metaphysics: Scepticism and cosmic process in Spenser's Cantos Ayesha Ramachandran 220

9 Mutability and mortality: reading Spenser's poetry Judith H. Anderson 246

10 'I would abate the sternenesse of my stile': diction and poetic subversion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie Richard Danson Brown 275

11 After the Mutabilitie Cantos: Yeats and Heaney reading Spenser Jane Grogan 295

Bibliography of the Mutabilitie Cantos 315

Index 329

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