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A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley: A Catholic Response to the Faerie Queene
Susannah Brietz Monta
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Description for A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley: A Catholic Response to the Faerie Queene
Hardback. Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. Editor(s): Monta, Susannah Brietz. Series Editor(s): Lethbridge, J. B. Series: The Manchester Spenser. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England's greatest poem. Through its sophisticated response to Spenser, A Fig for Fortune challenges a contemporary literary culture in which Protestant habits of thought and representation were gaining dominance. This book comprises the poem's first scholarly edition. It offers a carefully annotated edition of the 2000-line poem, an overview of English Catholic history in the sixteenth ... Read more
Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England's greatest poem. Through its sophisticated response to Spenser, A Fig for Fortune challenges a contemporary literary culture in which Protestant habits of thought and representation were gaining dominance. This book comprises the poem's first scholarly edition. It offers a carefully annotated edition of the 2000-line poem, an overview of English Catholic history in the sixteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Manchester Spenser
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719086977
SKU
V9780719086977
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About Susannah Brietz Monta
Susannah Brietz Monta is Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame -- .
Reviews for A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley: A Catholic Response to the Faerie Queene
'One of the volume's many virtues is the glimpse it provides into the complex world of Elizabethan Catholicism.' Claire McEachern, The Spenser Review 47.1 (Winter 2017)
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