{"product_id":"edmund-spenser-and-the-romance-of-space-9781526164001","title":"Edmund Spenser and the Romance of Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdmund Spenser and the romance of space\u003c\/i\u003e advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser’s writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser’s handling of mixed genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In this fascinating, interdisciplinary study Tamsin Badcoe reads Spenser’s works alongside the practical arts of cosmography and navigation and considers the poet’s green, muddy and coastal settings in relation to the imagined spaces of William Cuningham, John Dee and Sir Walter Ralegh. By bringing together literary, cultural and historical geographers she explores how the imagination contributes to early modern developments in geographical knowledge. [The book] contributes vitally to the knowledge of early modern literatures and environments ... This complex, highly nuanced analysis of literary and geographical works by Spenser and other makers of the spatial imaginary offers new, compelling readings of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’, \u003ci\u003eA View of the Present State of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, and the ‘Mutabilitie Cantos’.... Badcoe’s brilliant inquiry, which charts the labyrinthine course of literary and geographical terrain and plumbs the depths of the English and Irish seas with literal and figurative navigational tools, is well worth a careful read.'\u003cbr\u003eJennifer C. Vaught, \u003ci\u003eThe Spenser Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eBadcoe’s discussion of Colin Clouts \u003ci\u003eCome Home Againe\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkable.'\u003cbr\u003eStudies in English Literature 1500-1900    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'...\u003c\/i\u003ea book that will be a valuable resource not only for Spenser scholars but for anyone interested in the correlative of the natural world to fiction.'\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance Studies\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eTextual note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Orientations\u003cbr\u003e 1         Strange paths and perspective glasses\u003cbr\u003e2         Movement and measurement\u003cbr\u003e3         Feyned no where acts\u003cbr\u003e 4         Compassing desire: cosmography and chorography\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Environments\u003cbr\u003e5         Seamarks and coastal waters\u003cbr\u003e6         Wetlands and Spenser’s ‘personal curvature’\u003cbr\u003e7         Spenser’s insular fictions\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041030275415,"sku":"9781526164001","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526164001.jpg?v=1750948669","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edmund-spenser-and-the-romance-of-space-9781526164001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}