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Open Worlds? Spenser’s Ecological Game Play
by Julian Yates

Towards the end of the ominously numbered session #666, ‘Spenser, Ecology and the Dream of a Legible Environment’, at the 2020 Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle, Washington, presider Steve Mentz pondered something like the following: ‘As we have seen today, there is something about Spenser that encourages ecological thinking’. Certainly, the panel merited some such positive pronouncement, especially given how engaging all the papers had been […] Full of thoughts generated by panel #666, I wrote this short essay to explore what it might be about the world of the Faerie Queene that proves hospitable to ecological thinking. Along the way I redact some of the most recent essays and book chapters I have found most helpful to my thinking as I have tried to transform my quasi-automatic reaction into something like a response. Read more…

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Julian Yates, "Open Worlds? Spenser’s Ecological Game Play," Spenser Review (Fall 2020).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-50/503/open-worlds-spensers-ecological-game-play
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