Edmund Spenser and the Romance of Space

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.

List of contents

List of illustrations
Textual note
Introduction
Part I: Orientations
1 Strange paths and perspective glasses
2 Movement and measurement
3 Feyned no where acts
4 Compassing desire: cosmography and chorography
Part II: Environments
5 Seamarks and coastal waters
6 Wetlands and Spenser's 'personal curvature'
7 Spenser's insular fictions
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Tamsin Badcoe is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol

Summary

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Tamsin Badcoe, Badcoe Tamsin Tamsin
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781526139672
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3967-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies