Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism
Richard Chamberlain
€ 96.22
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism
Hardback. This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism. It begins by critiquing the new historicist hegemony in Spenser studies, and, through a series of detailed readings, proposes alternative strategies for interpreting the texts of this pivotal Renaissance author which include a politicised 'new aestheticism', eco-criticism, and pastoral theory. Unlike most non-new historicist studies, Radical Spenser argues that Spenser's texts demand a reading at once political and sensitive to aesthetic surprise. Following a polemical Introduction which establishes Spenser's centrality to key problems in contemporary Renaissance studies, Richard Chamberlain shows that William Empson's ... Read more
This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism. It begins by critiquing the new historicist hegemony in Spenser studies, and, through a series of detailed readings, proposes alternative strategies for interpreting the texts of this pivotal Renaissance author which include a politicised 'new aestheticism', eco-criticism, and pastoral theory. Unlike most non-new historicist studies, Radical Spenser argues that Spenser's texts demand a reading at once political and sensitive to aesthetic surprise. Following a polemical Introduction which establishes Spenser's centrality to key problems in contemporary Renaissance studies, Richard Chamberlain shows that William Empson's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748621910
SKU
V9780748621910
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
Reviews for Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism
Radical Spenser's fusion of an Adorno-led new aesthetics with earlier work on pastoral by William Empson is innovative and sophisticated!The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of poems that are, it is true, not nearly as simple as New Historicist critics sometimes make them appear. Radical Spenser's fusion of an Adorno-led new aesthetics with earlier work on pastoral by ... Read more