Reading and not reading the faerie queene: spenser and the making of literary criticism
Auteur :
Nicholson, Catherine
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691198989
Date de publication :
26 mai 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
476 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies "I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note o