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Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism. By Richard Chamberlain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2005. vi + 161 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-7486-2191-0.

As Richard Chamberlain admits, 'Spenser is rarely called "radical"' (p. 1). Modern criticism is usually informed by the conservative characterizations of Milton and Marx: 'a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas' (Milton); 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet' (Marx). A radical Spenser challenges such orthodoxies, destabilizing traditional accounts of him as a pre-eminently 'moral' poet, and more recent views that position him as a cheerleader of Elizabethan imperialism, whose writing is complicit in that questionable project.

Chamberlain argues against the hegemonic tendencies of...



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