We are online more than offline in our daily lives, and certainly our scholarship these days. And the spaces of online scholarship – formal and informal, ephemeral but archived, collective but individual – are becoming increasingly material to our cultural thinking and critical practice.
These online spaces of scholarship, and their possibilities, are the focus of the current issue of The Spenser Review. We solicited a forum of responses from a range of scholars internationally, and at different career-stages, on the question of how social media has (or might) change scholarship of Spenser and Renaissance literature. Elsewhere, Joe Moshenska reflects on the relatively recent but already successful International Spenser Society collective reading initiative, ‘Spenser At Random’. And Andrew Zurcher looks back on the enacting of community of another collective reading initiative, the Sidney-Spenser listserv, for years the mainstay of online conversation on Spenser and still a sort of ‘vital archaism’ in its own time, as he suggests.
We are also very pleased to feature Kat Addis’s important essay on Spenser and slavery. This piece, based on a 2021 RSA conference paper (and on the author’s doctoral dissertation), takes us back with a jolt to the episode of Pastorella and the shepherds in Book VI, and demands that we recognize the entanglement of its allegory with contemporary slaving practices, and the very ‘allegorical operation of chattel slavery’ within (and beyond) The Faerie Queene.
Our book reviews range from Rome to the Low Countries to the afterlife of Shakespeare’s sonnets and publishers (and readers) of poetry in books by Andrew Wallace, Jane Kingsley-Smith and Erin McCarthy. The still-enigmatic figure of John Derricke comes into focus in the latest offering from The Manchester Spenser series: a new collection of essays edited by Thomas Herron, Denna J. Iammarino and Maryclaire Moroney.
David Wilson-Okamura contributes an evocative memorial of the late Michael Murrin. Finally, you will find our annual census of abstracts from journals, conferences and dissertations on Spenser, as well as abstracts from the latest issue of Spenser Studies.
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Our regret at letting Professor Lethbridge off the hook for so much work is tempered only by our relief that Professor Brown stepped up so promptly to accept the mantle.
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