Reading and Not Reading the Faerie Queene Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism |
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| Author:
| Nicholson, Catherine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17678-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2020 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note o
The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note o