Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World

by David Read

This volume examines Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene within the context of England's international relations and colonial expansion during the Elizabethan period. The author argues that Book 2 serves as a vehicle for Spenser to imaging a model of English colonial activity in the New World.

164 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2000