I don’t know if there’s precedent for an editor of The Spenser Review presuming to say goodbye, as though comings and goings in the office were a matter of consequence. I hope my break with this tradition of modesty won’t come across as hubris. Read more…
In “Writing at Hazard: Accidental Spenser,” Andrew Zurcher explains why “Spenser’s allegoresis in The Faerie Queene might be said to be, at a deep level, accident prone.” Read more…
Willy Maley reflects on the long backward shadow thrown by “Brexit”: “Spenser was made in Ireland, but he was also made by England turning back to and turning its back on a certain idea of Europe and towards another idea, that of Empire. Brexit Mark I was a shaping force.” Read more…
Bas relief from the exterior of the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. Photo courtesy of Roger Kuin.
- Harriet Archer and Andrew Hadfield, eds., A Mirror for Magistrates in Context —
- Andrew Escobedo, ed., Edmund Spenser in Context —
- Brian C. Lockey, Early Modern Catholics, Royalists and Cosmopolitans —
- Richard A. McCabe, “Ungainefull Arte”: Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era —
- Noah Millstone, Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England —
- Stephanie Shirilan, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy —
- Danila Sokolov, Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities —
- Paul D. Stegner, Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature —
- Matthew Woodcock, Thomas Churchyard —