Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

First edition. viii, 288pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very gently rounded at spine tips. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges. Edmund Spenser, one of the seminal figures of English literature, has been seen as having racist, elitist and imperialist biases. In this volume a group of leading Spenser scholars counter these claims and show Spenser operating within English writing traditions and using the writing process to register and respond to the world around him.