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Article: Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World. By DAVID READ. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2000. 164 pp. $34.95.
In this intriguing study of Book II of The Faerie Queene, David Read argues a thesis that can often seem narrowly dogmatic with considerable subtlety and sophistication. The thesis, that Book II is 'an allegorical representation of a colonial "geography"' (p. 19), has often been argued before, most famously by Stephen Greenblatt in a chapter on the Bower of Bliss in Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Read is both more specific and more persistent, reading the colonial geography of Book II in terms of contemporary writing about the New ...