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Spenserian Futures
by Kirsten Schuhmacher, Bethany Dubow, John Garganourakis, M.K. Foster, Katie Kadue, Colin J. Keohane, Conor Wilcox-Mahon, Ashley Sarpong, Jeffrey B. Griswold, Bowen Du

This special review section on Spenserian Ecological futures highlights advanced Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars who are thinking with Spenser to explore entanglements with the more-than-human world. Tasked with offering an ecocritical close reading of a single stanza, the contributors explore these entanglements through political sovereignty, environmental catastrophe and racial injustice to name a few. A variety of voices from young scholars in England, Canada and the United States provide new perspectives. Collectively, they offer a wide array of new ecological angles on Spenser’s work as they think through water, soil, animals such as rams, allegorical ciphers like Errour and more. Traversing nearly every book of The Faerie Queene and the less-theorised Amoretti, this collection of short close readings showcase how our current ecological crises have long practical and theoretical histories within Spenser’s works. Read more…

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Kirsten Schuhmacher, Bethany Dubow, John Garganourakis, M.K. Foster, Katie Kadue, Colin J. Keohane, Conor Wilcox-Mahon, Ashley Sarpong, Jeffrey B. Griswold, Bowen Du, "Spenserian Futures," Spenser Review (Fall 2020).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-50/503/spenserian-futures
Accessed April 29th, 2025.
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