Overview
- Demonstrates engagement with animals in early modern literature beyond Shakespeare
- Connects animal studies as a critical approach with early modern scholarship
- Addresses topics of monstrosity, genre, animal ethics, and more
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Animals and Cultural Practices
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Animals, Slavery, and Race
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Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book proceeds in four sections: “Animals and Cultural Practices”; “Animals, Slavery, and Race”; “Animals in Complaints”; “Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene”. Contributors discuss a broad range of Spenser’s work, putting it into dialogue with a number of early modern discourses, including politics, poetics, and natural history.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rachel Stenner is senior lecturer in Literature 1350–1660 at the University of Sussex. She has published on authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, George Gascoigne, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, and William Baldwin. She is currently coediting Baldwin’s literary writings for publication with Boydell and Brewer.
Abigail Shinn is lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning (Palgrave, 2018). She has published work in the fields of conversion studies, early modern popular culture, drama, and Spenser studies. She is currently working on a new book project: Spenser’s Popular Voices: Culture and Play.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Edmund Spenser and Animal Life
Editors: Rachel Stenner, Abigail Shinn
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42641-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42640-7Published: 21 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42643-8Due: 23 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42641-4Published: 20 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 293
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Poetry and Poetics, History of Early Modern Europe, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science