Spenser's ruins and the art of recollectionRebeca Helfer.

Helfer, Rebeca, 1969-

Spenser's ruins and the art of recollectionRebeca Helfer. Ruins and the art of recollection - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 391 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Spenser's complaints : the fall of Troy, the ruin of Rome, and the art of recollection -- The death of the "new poete" : ruin and recollection in The Shepeardes calender -- The Ruines of time and the art of recollection -- "The methode of a poet historical [and] ... an historiographer" : recollecting the past in the 1590 Faerie queene -- Golden age recollections : prehistory as present in Spenser's later work -- Conclusion : misprision and freedom : ruining and recollecting the bower of bliss.



9781442660571


Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 --Criticism and interpretation.


Memory in literature.
Ruins in literature.
History in literature.
Mnemonics in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR2367 / .S646 2012