{"product_id":"9783031426438","title":"Edmund Spenser and Animal Life (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature) (2025. xv, 293 S. XV, 293 p. 8 illus., 4 illus. in color. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eComplaints\u003c\/i\u003e\"; \"Readers and Poetics in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e\". 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.\u003c\/p\u003e Chapter 1. Introduction : Edmund Spenser and Animal Studies.- Chapter 2. Did Edmund Dream of Shorthaired Sheep?.- Chapter 3. Spenser, Marine Life, and the Metaphysics of Extinction: Overfishing and the True Monsters of the Deep.- Chapter 4. The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eAmoretti\u003c\/i\u003e 67.- Chapter 5. Errour's Repercussions: Dragons, Race, and Animality in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene.\u003c\/i\u003e- Chapter 6\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eSpenser's 'apish crue': Aping in \u003ci\u003eProsopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale.\u003c\/i\u003e- Chapter 7.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eScorned Little Creatures?: Insects and Genre in \u003ci\u003eComplaints\u003c\/i\u003e (1591).- Chapter 8. Spenser's Parenthetical Butterflies.- Chapter 9. Good to think [with]': Spenser's Animals Against Materiality.- Chapter 10. A Fruitful-Headed Beast?: Rhyme in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 11\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eCoursers and Courses in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 12.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSpenser's Wings.- Chapter 13. Coda. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Stenner\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbigail Shinn\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning\u003c\/i\u003e (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: \u003ci\u003eSpenser's Popular Voices: Culture and Play.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865515798763,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":366.22,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031426438-1.jpg?v=1781717516","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031426438","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}