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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798577703321

Titolo

Literary and visual Ralegh / / edited by Christopher M. Armitage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2013

ISBN

1-5261-1146-2

1-5261-1147-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 396 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Manchester Spenser

Disciplina

821.3

Soggetti

Literature

Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800

LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index..

Nota di contenuto

Literary and visual Ralegh; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Of letters and the man: Sir Walter Ralegh: Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron, and Julian Lethbridge; 1. Raleigh in ruins, Raleigh on the rocks: Sir Wa'ter's two Books of Mutabilitie and their subject's allegorical presence in select Spenserean narratives and complaints: James Nohrnberg; 2. Spenser and Ralegh: Friendship and Literary Patronage: Wayne Erickson

3. Love's 'emperye': Raleigh's 'Ocean to Scinthia', Spenser's 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe' and The Faerie Queene IV.vii in colonial context: Thomas Herron4. 'Bellphebes course is now observde no more': Ralegh, Spenser and the literary politics of the Cynthia holograph: Anna Beer; 5. Replying to Raleigh's 'The Nymph's Reply': Allusion, anti-pastoral, and four centuries of pastoral invitations: Hannibal Hamlin; 6. 'Moving on the waters': Metaphor and mental space in Ralegh's History of the World: Michael Booth; 7. Water Ralegh's liquid narrative: The Discoverie of Guiana: Lowell Duckert

8. Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American ethnography: Alden T. Vaughan9. 'Most fond and fruitlesse warre': Ralegh and the call to



arms: Andrew Hiscock; 10. Ralegh's 'As You Came from the Holy Land' and the rival virgin queens of late sixteenth-century England: Gary Waller; 11. Patrilineal Ralegh: Judith Owens; 12. Ralegh's image in art: Vivienne Westbrook; 13. Where's Walter? The screen incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh: Susan Campbell Anderson; Sir Walter Ralegh bibliography (1986-2010): Christopher Mead Armitage; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy.