Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity

by Willy Maley

Avoiding apology and attack, Maley (English, U. of Glasgow) focuses on Spenser's (1552-99) formative experiences in early-modern Ireland. He examines such matters as the alleged censorship of the View , the relationship between it and Book V of The Faerie Queene , the Irish viceroyalty and the issue of absentee monarchism, the Munster Plantation, language and identity, and the limits of Anglo-Irishness. Some of the chapters have been published separately. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hardcover

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

William Timothy "Willy" Maley is a Scottish literary critic, editor, teacher and writer. He was Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow, and founder, with Philip Hobsbaum, of Glasgow's Creative Writing programme. He retired from the university in 2024. He is a Fellow of the English Association (FEA). He writes on early modern English literature from Spenser to Milton, and on modern Scottish and Irish writing.