Spenser's Secret Career
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; 3;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 February 1993
- ISBN 9780521416634
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 236x160x18 mm
- Weight 414 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
An impressive exploration of the poet Edmund Spenser's second career as a political secretary.
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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in accounts of Spenser's professional and social ambitions, informed his poetic career. The study takes issue with prevailing historicist accounts which see Spenser's careerism as shaped entirely by service to the court and as focused on a single-minded pursuit of laureateship along a Virgilian career route from pastoral to epic. It presents an alternative picture, and argues that for Spenser the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion and a means of measuring his distance from royal and aristocratic power. Spenser's Secret Career throws light on Spenser and on ideas of gender, power and subjecthood in the Renaissance.
"This book is to be valued especially for pointing the way to a more nuanced engagement with...Spencer's poems." Modern Philology
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Professional secrets; 2. The secretary's study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender; 3. 'In sundrie hands': the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spenser's Complaints; 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene; Notes; List of works cited; Index.
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