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Article: Reading the 1590 Faerie Queene with Thomas Nashe.(Edmund Spenser)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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I. SPENSER'S BACK PAGES
As one aspect of the capacious methodological program David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass christened "The New Boredom" (Kastan 18), (1) materialist case studies provide benchmarks against which literary scholars have learned to measure their investment in speculation and fantasy. Indeed, it could be argued that one of the chief merits of the work produced by scholars who have insisted on the importance of rigorously engaging with the material conditions of print culture has been to produce a body of studies in which cautionary tales abound. It could be argued, too, that no one must be more aware of the potential embarrassments that ...