The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser
- Author / Editor
- McCabe, Richard A., ed.
The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser
- Published
- Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 826 pp.; 25 b&w illus.
- Description
- Covers a wide range of concerns in Spenser criticism, with forty-two individual essays arranged under five headings: Contexts, Works, Poetic Craft, Sources and Influence, and Reception. The handbook cites Chaucer and his works recurrently, with particular attention to Chaucerianism in Spenser's language and Spenser's emulation of his predecessor. In "Spenser's Language(s): Linguistic Theory and Poetic Diction" (pp. 367-84), Dorothy Stephens discusses Chaucer's linguistic influence. In "Spenser, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance" (pp. 553-72), Andrew King assesses how Spenser successfully bridges the "opposition" between English medieval romance and Chaucer's works. King focuses on TC, SqT, MerT, and the openendedness of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Knight and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Canterbury Tales--General