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catalog abstract ""In this important study of Spenser and nationhood - the first to contextualize Spenser's response to the Irish colonial situation by reference to contemporary Gaelic literature - Richard McCabe examines the poet's canon within the dual contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment'. He shows how the experience of writing from Ireland, where the queen's influence repeatedly frustrated the expansionist ambitions of New English settlers, intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty and led to the remarkable fusion of colonial and sexual anxieties evident in The Faerie Queene's pervasive images of anti-heroic emasculation. At the same time the paradoxical attempt to impose civility through violence compromised the poem's moral vision and problematized its conception of national identity. The attempt to create an English myth of origin coincided uneasily with the need to discredit its Gaelic counterpart, as formulated in such works as the Lebor Gabala Erenn, while the perceived 'degeneration' of Old English families within the Pale confounded the ethnic distinctions upon which the colonial enterprise had come to rest and challenged the validity of all nationalist 'myth'. By drawing upon a wide range of Gaelic poets, historians and polemicists, McCabe seeks to recover the voices that the dialectical format of A View of the Present State of Ireland is designed to exclude and to demonstrate how the Irish dimension of The Faerie Queene provides a dark, but aesthetically enhancing, subtext to the poetics of national celebration."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b12661046.
catalog coverage "Ireland History 16th century Historiography.".
catalog coverage "Ireland In literature.".
catalog created "2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
catalog description ""In this important study of Spenser and nationhood - the first to contextualize Spenser's response to the Irish colonial situation by reference to contemporary Gaelic literature - Richard McCabe examines the poet's canon within the dual contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment'. He shows how the experience of writing from Ireland, where the queen's influence repeatedly frustrated the expansionist ambitions of New English settlers, intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty and led to the remarkable fusion of colonial and sexual anxieties evident in The Faerie Queene's pervasive images of anti-heroic emasculation. At the same time the paradoxical attempt to impose civility through violence compromised the poem's moral vision and problematized its conception of national identity. The attempt to create an English myth of origin coincided uneasily with the need to discredit its Gaelic counterpart, as formulated in such works as the Lebor Gabala Erenn, while the perceived 'degeneration' of Old English families within the Pale confounded the ethnic distinctions upon which the colonial enterprise had come to rest and challenged the validity of all nationalist 'myth'. By drawing upon a wide range of Gaelic poets, historians and polemicists, McCabe seeks to recover the voices that the dialectical format of A View of the Present State of Ireland is designed to exclude and to demonstrate how the Irish dimension of The Faerie Queene provides a dark, but aesthetically enhancing, subtext to the poetics of national celebration."--Jacket.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-297) and index.".
catalog description "Introduction: Beyond the Pale -- pt. I. The Imperial Theme -- 1. Arms and the Woman -- 2. Spenser and the Rival Poets -- pt. II. 'Salvagesse sans finesse' -- 3. 'Salvage-Nacion' -- 4. 'Salvage Knight' -- pt. III. The Faerie Queene (1590) -- 5. St. George for Ireland -- 6. Sins of Difference -- 7. Noble Britons, Savage Scyths -- pt. IV. Dialogues of Displacement -- 8. Colin Clout's Other Island -- 9. Irenius's Mother Tongue -- pt. V. The Faerie Queene (1596) -- 10. 'Friendships Faultie Guile' -- 11. Poetic Justice -- 12. Savage Courtesy -- pt. VI. Spenser's Ireland 1609-1650 -- 13. Diana's Spite -- 14. The Response to A View.".
catalog extent "xiii, 306 p. :".
catalog identifier "0198187343 (alk. paper)".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
catalog spatial "Ireland History 16th century Historiography.".
catalog spatial "Ireland In literature.".
catalog subject "821/.3 21".
catalog subject "Civilization, Celtic, in literature.".
catalog subject "Difference (Psychology) in literature.".
catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
catalog subject "Matriarchy in literature.".
catalog subject "PR2367.I67 M39 2002".
catalog subject "Poetics History 16th century.".
catalog subject "Race in literature.".
catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Knowledge Ireland.".
catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Views on sex role.".
catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.".
catalog subject "Women in literature.".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Beyond the Pale -- pt. I. The Imperial Theme -- 1. Arms and the Woman -- 2. Spenser and the Rival Poets -- pt. II. 'Salvagesse sans finesse' -- 3. 'Salvage-Nacion' -- 4. 'Salvage Knight' -- pt. III. The Faerie Queene (1590) -- 5. St. George for Ireland -- 6. Sins of Difference -- 7. Noble Britons, Savage Scyths -- pt. IV. Dialogues of Displacement -- 8. Colin Clout's Other Island -- 9. Irenius's Mother Tongue -- pt. V. The Faerie Queene (1596) -- 10. 'Friendships Faultie Guile' -- 11. Poetic Justice -- 12. Savage Courtesy -- pt. VI. Spenser's Ireland 1609-1650 -- 13. Diana's Spite -- 14. The Response to A View.".
catalog title "Spenser's monstrous regiment : Elizabethan Ireland and the poetics of difference / Richard A. McCabe.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "text".