Edmund Spenser''s Shepheardes Calender (1579) - An Analyzed Facsimile Edition

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender's development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture.

About the author

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University

Summary

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Ken Borris, Kenneth Borris
• Assisted by: Ken Borris (Editor), Kenneth Borris (Editor), Joshua Samuel Reid (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781526133458
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3345-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Manchester Spenser
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies