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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet! historian! and figure of controversy. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Of letters and the man: Sir Walter Ralegh - Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron and Julian Lethbridge1. 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 Nohrnberg2. Spenser and Ralegh: friendship and literary patronage - Wayne Erickson3. 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 Duckert8. Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American ethnography - Alden T. Vaughan9. 'most fond and fruitlesse warre': Ralegh and the call to arms - Andrew Hiscock10. 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 Owens12. Ralegh's image in art - Dr. Vivienne Westbrook13. Where's Walter? The screen incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh - Susan AndersonSir Walter Ralegh bibliography (1986-2010) - Christopher M. ArmitageIndex...
