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Spensers Secret Career
Overview
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's ground-breaking book explores the ways in which this latter profession informed his poetic career. It argues that for Spenser, the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion and a means of measuring his distance from royal and aristocratic power. The study presents a new picture of Spenser and examines ideas of gender, power, and subjecthood in the Renaissance.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521030939
- ISBN-10: 0521030935
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: January 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.42 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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