Celebrating Mutabilitie
Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
Edited by Jane Grogan
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8224-5
- Pages: 384
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: July 2010
- Series: The Manchester Spenser
Description
This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene (1590-96). It brings together leading and emerging Spenser scholars from the US, UK, Ireland and India to asses and assert the significance of the Mutabilitie Cantos to Spenser's work ad thought. All eleven essays are origional and specially commissioning for this substantial volume with contributions from James Nohrnberg, Gordon Teskey and Judith Anderson. Although broadly historical, in keeping the principles with The Manchester Spenser series, the collections encompasses an impressive variety of approaches and interests, ranging from historical allegory and material, political, philosophical and literary contexts of the Mutabilitie Cantos, as well as their commanding place in early modern English and Irish literature and history. The collection also includes a full bibliography of scholarly criticism of the Mutabilitie Cantos.
This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, to scholars of Spenser and scholars of renaissance studies
Reviews
Winner of the 2013 Isabel Maccaffrey award for best book or article
'There is high-quality work here, including clear scholarship from Andrew Zurcher on the printing of the Cantos, a delightful essay from Richard Danson Brown on Spenser's diction, and outstanding analysis of the poem's Lucretian metaphysics from Ayesha Ramachandran. The most innovative contribution comes from Grogan herself as she traces the Mutabilitie Cantos' reception via Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This final delicately written essay stands out for its political and literary subtlety and encapsulates something of the allusive brilliance of Spenser's voice itself.'
The TLS, 3/12/2010
Awards
2013
The Isabel Maccaffrey award for best book or article
Contents
List of Figures and Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Jane Grogan (University College Dublin): Introduction
1. Gordon Teskey (Harvard University): Night Thoughts on Mutability
2. Andrew Zurcher (Queens' College, Cambridge): The Printing of the
Cantos of Mutabilitie in 1609
3. Robert Lanier Reid (Emory & Henry College): Spenser's Mutability
Song: Conclusion or Transition?
4. James Nohrnberg (University of Virginia): Supplementing Spenser's
Supplement, a Masque in Several Scenes: Eight Literary-Critical
Meditations on a Renaissance Numen Called Mutabilitie
5. Thomas Herron (East Carolina University): Native Irish Property and
Propriety in the Faunus Episode and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
6. Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University): Mutability, Metamorphosis and the Nature of Power
7. Christopher Burlinson (Jesus College, Cambridge): Spenser's 'Legend
of Constancie': Book VII and the Ethical Reader
8. Ayesha Ramachandran (Stony Brook University): Mutabilitie's
Lucretian Metaphysics: Skepticism and Cosmic Process in Spenser's
Cantos
9. Judith H. Anderson (Indiana University): Mutability and Mortality:
Reading Spenser
10. Richard Danson Brown (Open University): 'I would abate the
sternesse of my stile': Diction and Poetic Subversion in Two
Cantos of Mutabilitie
11. Jane Grogan (University College Dublin): After the Mutabilitie
Cantos: Yeats and Heaney Reading Spenser
Bibliography of the Mutabilitie Cantos
Index
Editor
Jane Grogan is a lecturer in the school of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin
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