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"This is an original and challenging book. Nicholson has mastered the complex history of Spenser criticism, and her supple, pointed prose carries its learning easily: Keats’s advice to Shelley, ‘Load every rift with ore’ (which, she points out in a fine passage, reworks Mammon’s to Guyon), might describe her own language. It’s major work, fascinating in its account of Spenser’s readers and acute in its understanding of the poem."---William A. Oram, Modern Language Quarterly
"In tapping The Fairie Queene’s history of undisciplined reading, Nicholson has helped to thaw some of the marmoreal frigidity with which twentieth century scholarship not infrequently imbued the poem. (Paradoxically, she has done so without herself sacrificing an iota of rigor.) Spenser himself might well have appreciated the project."---Raphael Magarik, MAKE Magazine

Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 26 May 2020
      ISBN-13 9780691176789
      978-0691176789
      ISBN-10 0691176787
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      Literary studies: general Literary theory Literature: history and criticism

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "This is an original and challenging book. Nicholson has mastered the complex history of Spenser criticism, and her supple, pointed prose carries its learning easily: Keats’s advice to Shelley, ‘Load every rift with ore’ (which, she points out in a fine passage, reworks Mammon’s to Guyon), might describe her own language. It’s major work, fascinating in its account of Spenser’s readers and acute in its understanding of the poem."---William A. Oram, Modern Language Quarterly
      "In tapping The Fairie Queene’s history of undisciplined reading, Nicholson has helped to thaw some of the marmoreal frigidity with which twentieth century scholarship not infrequently imbued the poem. (Paradoxically, she has done so without herself sacrificing an iota of rigor.) Spenser himself might well have appreciated the project."---Raphael Magarik, MAKE Magazine

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