Spensers Secret Career by Richard Rambuss (English) Paperback Book

Description: Spensers Secret Career by Richard Rambuss An impressive exploration of the poet Edmund Spenser's second career as a political secretary. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambusss book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in accounts of Spensers professional and social ambitions, informed his poetic career. The study takes issue with prevailing historicist accounts which see Spensers careerism as shaped entirely by service to the court and as focused on a single-minded pursuit of laureateship along a Virgilian career route from pastoral to epic. It presents an alternative picture, and 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. Spensers Secret Career throws light on Spenser and on ideas of gender, power and subjecthood in the Renaissance. Notes 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. Working from the fact that contemporary bureaucratic treatises defined the management of secrets as a secretary’s central occupation, Richard Rambuss’s book considers the relations between Spenser’s secretaryships and the recurring thematic of secrecy in his poetry. It argues that, for Spenser, the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion in terms of both of his careers. Author Biography Richard Rambuss is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of Spenser??s Secret Career. Table of Contents List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Professional secrets; 2. The secretarys study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender; 3. In sundrie hands: the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spensers Complaints; 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene; Notes; List of works cited; Index. Review "This book is to be valued especially for pointing the way to a more nuanced engagement with...Spencers poems." Modern Philology "...one of the more exciting of recent books on Spenser; and, remarkably, for such a stylish study, it is a model of argumentative and stylistic lucidity." P. Cullen, Choice "Spensers Secret Career is an excellent test case for the value of narrow literary biography--that is, a work that accounts for a writers career in terms of a single theme or preoccupation...Rambuss is a good close reader and a perceptive analyst of cultural context...we should welcome this book...for the distinctive illumination it provides." Sixteenth-Century Journal "Rambusss study enhances the critical repertoire by providing a well-written and often rewarding introduction to its subject. His analysis also provides further evidence that Spensers command of poetic means of secrecy empowers his texts to depart from political orthodoxies...Rambusss study clarifies some broader difficulties current in much New Historicism." Kenneth Boris, Dalhousie Review "...an elegant and painstaking reading...one of the most well-constructed readings of its kind..." Nigel Smith, Times Literary Supplement Review Quote "This book is to be valued especially for pointing the way to a more nuanced engagement with...Spencers poems." Modern Philology Promotional "Headline" An impressive exploration of the poet Edmund Spensers second career as a political secretary. Description for Bookstore Spensers Secret Career is an interesting study of the interplay of secrets and secrecy in Spensers poetic texts and his careerist negotiations, as well as in conceptions of gender, power and subjecthood in Renaissance culture. Description for Library Spensers Secret Career is an interesting study of the interplay of secrets and secrecy in Spensers poetic texts and his careerist negotiations, as well as in conceptions of gender, power and subjecthood in Renaissance culture. Details ISBN0521030935 Author Richard Rambuss Pages 184 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Language English ISBN-10 0521030935 ISBN-13 9780521030939 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY B Series Number 3 Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-01-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Short Title SPENSERS SECRET CAREER REV/E Edition Description Revised Affiliation Tulane University, Louisiana Illustrations 4 Halftones, unspecified DOI 10.1604/9780521030939 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2007-01-18 AU Release Date 2007-01-18 NZ Release Date 2007-01-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91383001;

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