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Article: Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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J. B. Lethbridge, ed. Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions.
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006. 386 pp. index. illus. $55. ISBN: 0-8386-4066-4.
The introduction to this collection reports that Spenser studies are showing "signs of a resurgence of historical criticism" (15)--though the resurgence is decades old by now and seems, in fact, somewhat in recession these days. In the fifteen articles and conference papers abstracted in the first 2006 Spenser Review, reception, gender, and material-cultural studies seem to have displaced the preoccupations with Elizabethan politics familiar from the 1980s and 1990s. The introduction may be ...