Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (The Manchester Spenser) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526179040 ISBN 13: 9781526179043

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, this collection poses questions about poetic authority, influence, and the nature of intertextual relations in a more wide-ranging manner than ever before. With its dual focus on authors from periods often conceived as radically separate, the collection also responds to current interests in periodisation. This approach will engage academics, researchers and students of Medieval and Early Modern culture.

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About the Author

Rachel Stenner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, 1350-1660 at the University of Sussex
Tamsin Badcoe is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol
Gareth Griffith is a former Senior Lecturer and Director of Part Time Programmes at the University of Bristol

From the Back Cover

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, this collection addresses questions of poetic authority, influence, and the nature of intertextual relations in a more wide-ranging manner than ever before.
The chapters respond to the concern that we have not fully understood what Chaucer meant to Spenser. The contributors analyse the values that Chaucer represented for Spenser and, more literally, the meanings that were made available to Spenser by Chaucer’s works via the forms in which Spenser encountered them. By addressing the ways in which previous critics have read the relationship between these writers, this book offers rereadings and new insights that are in dialogue with current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship: renewed interests in literary form, book history, garden history, and animal studies. With its dual focus on authors from periods often conceived as radically separate, the collection also intervenes in current debates about periodisation. This approach will engage researchers, academics, and students of Medieval and Early Modern culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526179040
• ISBN 13: 9781526179043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Stenner Rachel, Badcoe Tamsin, Griffith Gareth