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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Danner, B

Titel

Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2011

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1. The 1590 Faerie Queene and the origins of 'a mighty Peres displeasure -- pt. 2. The Complaints and 'the man ... of whom the muse is scorned' -- pt. 3. After the Complaints.
• Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.
• English