Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age - Paperback

by Patrick Cheney (Editor), Lauren Silberman (Editor)

Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The

Author Biography

Patrick Cheney, professor of English and comparative literature at Penn State University, is the author of Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career.

Lauren Silberman, professor of English at Baruch College-CUNY, is the author of Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of "The Faerie Queene."