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Spenser and Social Media
by Danielle Clarke, Promise Li, Jerome de Groot, Rachel Willie, Liz Oakley-Brown, Stephen O'Neill, Jessica Junqueira, Megan Herrold, Brooke Conti, Supriya Chaudhuri, Cathy Shrank, Lubaaba al-Azami

What would  Spenser have chosen as his Twitter handle, and how many accounts might he have run (@EK? @colinclout? @immerito? @belphoebe is taken). The capacity to construct and project a range of voices and identities would have appealed to him, as would the endless capacity of Twitter to grandstand, amplify and nit-pick. There would have been a parody account (@gabrielharvey?) and bids for poetic ownership (curating a @philipsidneyspeaks account, possibly). Read more…

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Danielle Clarke, Promise Li, Jerome de Groot, Rachel Willie, Liz Oakley-Brown, Stephen O'Neill, Jessica Junqueira, Megan Herrold, Brooke Conti, Supriya Chaudhuri, Cathy Shrank, Lubaaba al-Azami, "Spenser and Social Media," Spenser Review (Fall 2021).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-51/513/how-has-or-might-social-media-changed-our-understanding-of-spenser-and-renaissance-literature-1
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