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Spensers Secret Career

Spensers Secret Career

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 3

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresPolitical Biographies

ISBN10: 0521030935
ISBN13: 9780521030939
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18 2007
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's ground-breaking book explores the ways in which this latter profession informed his poetic career. It argues that for Spenser, the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion and a means of measuring his distance from royal and aristocratic power. The study presents a new picture of Spenser and examines ideas of gender, power, and subjecthood in the Renaissance.

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