Overview

This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. Some of the essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and as he is represented in paintings, statues, and in movies; others re-examine him as poet, historian, as a controversial figure in Ireland during Elizabeth's reign, and look at his complex relationship with and patronage of Edmund Spenser. A recurrent topic is the Hatfield Manuscript in Ralegh's handwriting, which contains his long, unfinished poem 'The Ocean to Cynthia', usually considered a lament about his rejection by Queen Elizabeth after she learned of his secret marriage to one of her ladies-in-waiting.The book is appropriate for students of Elizabethan-Jacobean history and literature.Among the contributors are well-known scholars of Ralegh and his era, including James Nohrenberg, Anna Beer, Thomas Herron, Alden Vaughan and Andrew Hiscock. -- .

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Author:   Christopher Armitage ,  J. B. Lethbridge
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781526106957

ISBN 10:   1526106957
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   03 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Of letters and the man: Sir Walter Ralegh - Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron and Julian Lethbridge 1. Ralegh in ruins, Ralegh on the rocks: Sir Wa'ter's two books of mutabilitie and their subject's allegorical presence in select Spenserean narratives and complaints - James Nohrnberg 2. Spenser and Ralegh: friendship and literary patronage - Wayne Erickson 3. Love's 'emperye': Ralegh's 'Ocean to Scinthia', Spenser's 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe' and The Faerie Queene IV.vii in colonial context - Thomas Herron 4. 'Bellphebes course is now observde no more': Ralegh, Spenser and the literary politics of Cynthia holograph - Anna Beer 5. Replying to Ralegh's The Nymph's Reply : allusion, anti-pastoral, and four centuries of pastoral invitations - Hannibal Hamlin 6. Moving on the Waters : metaphor and mental space in Ralegh's History of the World - Michael Booth 7. Water Ralegh's liquid narrative: The Discoverie of Guiana - Lowell Duckert 8. Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American ethnography - Alden T. Vaughan 9. 'most fond and fruitlesse warre': Ralegh and the call to arms - Andrew Hiscock 10. Ralegh's As You Came from the Holy Land and the rival virgin queens of late sixteenth-century England - Gary Waller 11. Patrilineal Ralegh - Judith Owens 12. Ralegh's image in art - Dr. Vivienne Westbrook 13. Where's Walter? The screen incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh - Susan Anderson Sir Walter Ralegh bibliography (1986-2010) - Christopher M. Armitage Index -- .

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Professor Armitage presents an admirable bibliography (1986-2010) of Ralegh's works. This is a real asset and will certainly advance Ralegh scholarship. -- .

Professor Armitage presents an admirable bibliography (1986-2010) of Ralegh's works. This is a real asset and will certainly advance Ralegh scholarship. -- .

Author Information

Christopher M. Armitage is Professor of Distinguished Teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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