Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton

The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-485-5829-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire. Their appropriations, which were widely influential on communities of readers, writers, and intertextual networks from 1590–1660, left an abiding impression of Spenser as a biting satirist. Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: 'The Faerie Queene' as Intertextual Environment is the first study to combine the reception history of The Faerie Queene with ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanist tenets of vital materialism and the power of things. This poem functions as a powerful, nonhuman agent that transforms how readers respond to their environments. The Faerie Queene and its afterlives move readers to perceive flaws in political, social, and religious figureheads and institutions to envision better ones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaught, Jennifer C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment

1. The Phenomenology of Reading, Ecological Awareness, and Making of Satire in The Faerie Queene 1.

2. Shakespeare’s Memories of Spenser’s Creations in the Elizabethan Playhouse: Animals, Places, and Powerful Things

3. Jonson’s Spenser and the Political Act of Satire in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline England

4. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene in Republican and Royalist Networks: Marvell, Sir Thomas Fairfax, and Milton

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vaught, Jennifer C.
Jennifer C. Vaught is Professor of English at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Most recently, she is the author of Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser (2019) and coeditor with Judith H. Anderson of the essay collection Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary (2013).