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Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.

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Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Salvaging Spenser - 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text - Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland - Varieties of Englishness: Planting a New Culture Beyond the Pale - 'Who knowes not Arlo-hill?': Changing Places in The Faerie Queene - 'And nought but presed gras where she had Iyen': Royal Absenteeism and Viceregal Verses - How Milton and Some Contemporaries read the View - The View from Scotland: Combing the Celtic Fringe - Spensership: a Judicial Review - Select Bibliography: Spenser and Ireland - Notes - Index

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/29/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780333629420, 978-0333629420
      ISBN10: 0333629426
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Present State of Ireland, within an elaborate cultural and political context.

      Table of Contents
      Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Salvaging Spenser - 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text - Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland - Varieties of Englishness: Planting a New Culture Beyond the Pale - 'Who knowes not Arlo-hill?': Changing Places in The Faerie Queene - 'And nought but presed gras where she had Iyen': Royal Absenteeism and Viceregal Verses - How Milton and Some Contemporaries read the View - The View from Scotland: Combing the Celtic Fringe - Spensership: a Judicial Review - Select Bibliography: Spenser and Ireland - Notes - Index

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