Edmund Spenser and animal life / Rachel Stenner, Abigail Shinn, editors.
This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book proceeds in four sections: Animals...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2024]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in animals and literature
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book proceeds in four sections: Animals and Cultural Practices; Animals, Slavery, and Race; Animals in Complaints; Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene. Contributors discuss a broad range of Spensers work, putting it into dialogue with a number of early modern discourses, including politics, poetics, and natural history. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783031426414 303142641X |