Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography
by Judith H. Anderson
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"On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first "life" of Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy, and anxiety. Over succeeding centuries, readers have tried to revise and elaborate this life with reference to a handful of surviving records and a wealth of dubiously pertinent historical fact and gossip. The nine essays in this volume examine the show more history of Spenser biography and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it to an audience newly sensitive to problems of artistic self-presentation."--Jacket. show lessMembers
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Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. She is the author of six studies and coeditor of a further five volumes, including, most recently, Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary (2013) and Light, and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton (2017).
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