TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hile, Rachel
AB  - Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's accomplishments and influence on satiric poetry. This book argues that the indirect form of satire developed by Spenser served during and after Spenser's lifetime as an important model for other poets who wished to convey satirical messages with some degree of safety. The book connects key Spenserian texts in The Shepheardes Calender and the Complaints volume with poems by a range of authors in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Joseph Hall, Thomas Nashe, Tailboys Dymoke, Thomas Middleton and George Wither, to advance the thesis that Spenser was seen by his contemporaries as highly relevant to satire in Elizabethan England.
DO  - 10.7228/manchester/9780719088087.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626403
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 969416673
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - European Literature
KW  - Spenser
KW  - Satire
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Edmund Spenser
KW  - The Shepheardes Calender
KW  - Thomas Nashe
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/647b8d8b-8b37-4dbe-a691-c62bb00e0972/626403.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31616
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2017-01-01
SN  - 9781526125132
TI  - Spenserian Satire : A Tradition of Indirection
ER  - 
