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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The 1590 Faerie Queene and the Origins of ‘a mighty Peres displeasure’
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The Complaints and ‘the man … of whom the Muse is scorned’
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After the Complaints
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'While Danner gives convincing accounts of individual poems, the revisionary power of his book lies in its making Edmund Spenser's Complaints central to the understanding of his life. By contextualizing the volume especially Mother Hubberds Tale , The Ruines of Time , and Virgils Gnat in 1591, he illuminates Spenser's estrangement from Elizabeth's court and suggests the dimensions of his boldness in attacking Lord Burghley, the most powerful man in Elizabethan England. In his introduction Danner performs the coup de grace on Greenlaw's moribund thesis about Spenser's supposed disgrace in 1579, and substitutes his own bold hypothesis about the causes of Burghley's enmity. As it develops its thesis, the book gives unusually careful attention to contemporary understandings of the Complaints and to the poet's self-presentation in its poems. It marks an important shift in Spenserian biography.' - William Oram, Smith College, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley
Authors: Bruce Danner
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230336674
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29903-0Published: 28 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33520-6Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33667-4Published: 28 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 264
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics