Visionary Spenser and the Poetics of Early Modern Platonism
Author:   Kenneth Borris (Professor, Department of English, McGill University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198807070


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   10 August 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kenneth Borris (Professor, Department of English, McGill University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780198807070


ISBN 10:   0198807074
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   10 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: PLATONIC POETICS 1: Platonism in Early Modern Poetics and Spenser's Poesis PART TWO: THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER 2: Spenser's Phaedran Calender 3: The Calender's Visions and Poetics of Beauty PART THREE: THE 1590 AND 1596 FAERIE QUEENE 4: The (H)eroic Idealism of Spenser's Faery 5: Gloriana's 'True Glorious Type'

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All in all, Visionary Spenser is a learned book on a fascinating topic...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * B. E. Brandt, CHOICE *


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Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University. A former Canada Research Fellow and winner of the MacCaffrey Award, he is the author of two monographs, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature, and Spenser's Poetics of Prophecy. He has also edited Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650, and co-edited The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (with George Rousseau) and The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (with George Klawitter). His essays and chapters have appeared in numerous serials and collections including Renaissance Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, Milton Studies, Spenser Studies, and The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys.

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