Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: A Reading Guide

Andrew Zurcher

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3957-1
$30.00

July, 2011
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3956-4
Edinburgh University Press
$100.00

Designed for students who are new to Spenser's masterpiece, as well as for instructors who seek strategies for teaching it, this guide offers an innovative introduction to The Faerie Queene and its complex construction. Through a representative selection of excerpts from the poem, Andrew Zurcher lays out the skills and interpretive methods students will need to absorb key themes and techniques. He includes relevant contexts and related texts, which not only enhance the reading experience for newcomers but also help develop a rich course around the poem that can stretch into other disciplines and fields.

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Reading Guides to Long Poems (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Andrew Zurcher is fellow and Newton Trust Lecturer in the faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

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