EDMUND SPENSER (Hardcover)

General Editor's Preface  Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction  2. Barbarous Tongues: The ideology of poetic form (Richard Helgerson)  3. 'The Perfecte Paterne of a Poet': The poetics of courtship in The Shepeardes Calender (Louis Montrose).  4. Spenser's Complaints (Richard Ramuss)  5. Spenser's Poetics: The Poem's two bodies (David Lee Miller).  6. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the destruction of the Bower of Bliss (Stephen Greenblatt)  7. Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous discourse in Book III of the Faerie Queene (Lauren Silberman)  8. 'Endlesse Worke' (Jonathan Goldberg)  9. Praise and Defence of the Queen in The Faerie Queene, Book V (Pamela Joseph Benson)  10. The 'Sacred Hunger of Ambitious Minds: Spenser's savage religion (Andrew Hadfield)  11. The Colonization of Language: Narrative strategies in The Faerie Queene, Book VI (Anne Fogarty)  12. Mapping Mutability: or Spenser's Irish Plot (Julia Reinhard Lupton).  Notes on author  Further reading  Index