Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and His ContemporariesThe interplay between colonialism and gender is the focus of this book, which concentrates on Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene in the context of English history. Spenser's attitudes toward the Irish are drawn out of the text of his poetry, especially his preoccupations with sexual promiscuity, Catholicism, and miscegenation. The underlying textual dynamics are analyzed in terms of Spenser's relationship with Queen Elizabeth and his residence in Ireland. |
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... Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth Harriet Hawkins considers Guyon's violence in the Bower of Bliss ( 2.12.83 ) and asks a crucial question : " Why does Guyon go so far ? The source of all the danger in the garden , the sorceress Acrasia ...
... Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth Harriet Hawkins considers Guyon's violence in the Bower of Bliss ( 2.12.83 ) and asks a crucial question : " Why does Guyon go so far ? The source of all the danger in the garden , the sorceress Acrasia ...
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... Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth : Chaucer , Shakespeare , Marlowe , Milton . Oxford . Clarendon Press . Heale , Elizabeth . 1990. " Munera , Pollente . " The Spenser Encyclopedia . Edited by A. C. Hamilton . Toronto . University of ...
... Poetic Freedom and Poetic Truth : Chaucer , Shakespeare , Marlowe , Milton . Oxford . Clarendon Press . Heale , Elizabeth . 1990. " Munera , Pollente . " The Spenser Encyclopedia . Edited by A. C. Hamilton . Toronto . University of ...
Contents
The Supplication and A View | 1 |
Truth Error and Duplicity | 19 |
Acrasia Ruddymane and the Red Hand of Ulster | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Acrasia allegory allusion Amoret Anne Boleyn Anon anxiety Archimago Artegall associated attack beauty Belphoebe blood Book Bower of Bliss Brigants Butlin cannibalism Catholicism chapter chastity claims colonized corruption danger degenerate demonization depiction Duessa early modern early modern English Elizabeth enemy England English Protestant Eudoxus evident Faerie Queene faire False Florimell female figure Flourdelis Fynes Moryson Gaelic Gainsford gender Geneva Bible Grantorto Guyon Hackett Hadfield hath haue incestuous Irena Irish Catholic Irish landscape Irish rebels Irish women knights Lady land lust malevolent Maley Mary McCabe metaphor miscegenation moral Moryson mother Munera Munster Mutabilitie Cantos narrator Native Irish O'Neill Old English pastoral Pastorella Petrarchan political Pollente rebellion Redcrosse reference religious represents Richard McCabe Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church Ruddymane episode Saluage Nation Sander savage seduction Serena sexual promiscuity Shakespeare 1623 Spenser suggests Supplication symbol Talus throughout the poem View Irenius violence virgin vnto whore Willy Maley witchcraft woman woodland woods yore