Spenser's Secret Career by Richard Rambuss (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Spenser's Secret Career by Richard Rambuss An impressive exploration of the poet Edmund Spenser's second career as a political secretary. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambusss ground-breaking book explores the ways in which this latter profession informed his poetic career. It argues that for Spenser, the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion and a means of measuring his distance from royal and aristocratic power. The study presents a new picture of Spenser and examines ideas of gender, power, and subjecthood in the Renaissance. Author Biography Richard Rambuss is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of Spenser??s Secret Career. Table of Contents List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Professional secrets; 2. The secretarys study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender; 3. In sundrie hands: the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spensers Complaints; 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene; Notes; List of works cited; Index. Review "This book is to be valued especially for pointing the way to a more nuanced engagement with...Spencers poems." Modern Philology "...one of the more exciting of recent books on Spenser; and, remarkably, for such a stylish study, it is a model of argumentative and stylistic lucidity." P. Cullen, Choice "Spensers Secret Career is an excellent test case for the value of narrow literary biography--that is, a work that accounts for a writers career in terms of a single theme or preoccupation...Rambuss is a good close reader and a perceptive analyst of cultural context...we should welcome this book...for the distinctive illumination it provides." Sixteenth-Century Journal "Rambusss study enhances the critical repertoire by providing a well-written and often rewarding introduction to its subject. His analysis also provides further evidence that Spensers command of poetic means of secrecy empowers his texts to depart from political orthodoxies...Rambusss study clarifies some broader difficulties current in much New Historicism." Kenneth Boris, Dalhousie Review "...an elegant and painstaking reading...one of the most well-constructed readings of its kind..." Nigel Smith, Times Literary Supplement Review Quote "This book is to be valued especially for pointing the way to a more nuanced engagement with...Spencers poems." Modern Philology Promotional "Headline" An impressive exploration of the poet Edmund Spensers second career as a political secretary. Description for Bookstore Spensers Secret Career is an interesting study of the interplay of secrets and secrecy in Spensers poetic texts and his careerist negotiations, as well as in conceptions of gender, power and subjecthood in Renaissance culture. Description for Library Spensers Secret Career is an interesting study of the interplay of secrets and secrecy in Spensers poetic texts and his careerist negotiations, as well as in conceptions of gender, power and subjecthood in Renaissance culture. Details ISBN0521416639 Author Richard Rambuss Short Title SPENSERS SECRET CAREER Pages 184 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture Language English ISBN-10 0521416639 ISBN-13 9780521416634 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY B Series Number 3 Year 2005 Publication Date 2005-12-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Tulane University, Louisiana Illustrations 4 Halftones, unspecified DOI 10.1604/9780521416634 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 1993-02-26 AU Release Date 1993-02-26 NZ Release Date 1993-02-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91364964;

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