The Resource Spenser's secret career
Spenser's secret career
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The item Spenser's secret career represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- 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 book explores how this latter career, usually allotted only cursory mention in accounts of Spenser's professional ambitions, informed his poetic career. Working from the fact that contemporary bureaucratic treatises defined the management of secrets as the central occupation of secretaryship, this study provides a careerist context for the attention to secrecy throughout Spenser's poetry. It takes issue with prevailing new historicist accounts which see Spenser's careerism as shaped entirely by a single-minded pursuit of laureateship along a Virgilian route from pastoral to epic. Spenser's Secret Career presents an alternative picture, arguing that for Spenser the manipulation of secrets - his own and others' - provided a strategy of self-promotion for both of his careers
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 164 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Professional secrets. "Ouerture" and "Couerture" Leicester's gnat. Profession and vocation
- 2. The secretary's study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender. The English secretary. E.K.'s cabinet of secrets. Spenser's closet
- 3. "In sundrie hands": the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spenser's Complaints. "Hidden still": The Faerie Queene 1-3. Spenser's Complaints: "Into each secrete part"
- 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene. Colin Cloute's Irish estate. Unlocking the "enlocked" sovereign breast. Secrecy and privacy
- Isbn
- 9780521416634
- Label
- Spenser's secret career
- Title
- Spenser's secret career
- Subject
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- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
- Secrecy in literature
- Courts and courtiers in literature
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Pensée politique et sociale
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Political and social views
- Secretaries -- England -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 book explores how this latter career, usually allotted only cursory mention in accounts of Spenser's professional ambitions, informed his poetic career. Working from the fact that contemporary bureaucratic treatises defined the management of secrets as the central occupation of secretaryship, this study provides a careerist context for the attention to secrecy throughout Spenser's poetry. It takes issue with prevailing new historicist accounts which see Spenser's careerism as shaped entirely by a single-minded pursuit of laureateship along a Virgilian route from pastoral to epic. Spenser's Secret Career presents an alternative picture, arguing that for Spenser the manipulation of secrets - his own and others' - provided a strategy of self-promotion for both of his careers
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rambuss, Richard
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR2367.P6
- LC item number
- R3 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
- Series volume
- 3
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Literature and society
- Poets, English
- Courts and courtiers in literature
- Secretaries
- Secrecy in literature
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Edmund
- Label
- Spenser's secret career
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Professional secrets. "Ouerture" and "Couerture" Leicester's gnat. Profession and vocation -- 2. The secretary's study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender. The English secretary. E.K.'s cabinet of secrets. Spenser's closet -- 3. "In sundrie hands": the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spenser's Complaints. "Hidden still": The Faerie Queene 1-3. Spenser's Complaints: "Into each secrete part" -- 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene. Colin Cloute's Irish estate. Unlocking the "enlocked" sovereign breast. Secrecy and privacy
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521416634
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Spenser's secret career
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Professional secrets. "Ouerture" and "Couerture" Leicester's gnat. Profession and vocation -- 2. The secretary's study: the secret designs of The Shepheardes Calender. The English secretary. E.K.'s cabinet of secrets. Spenser's closet -- 3. "In sundrie hands": the 1590 Faerie Queene and Spenser's Complaints. "Hidden still": The Faerie Queene 1-3. Spenser's Complaints: "Into each secrete part" -- 4. Secret sights, private parts: the 1596 Faerie Queene. Colin Cloute's Irish estate. Unlocking the "enlocked" sovereign breast. Secrecy and privacy
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521416634
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
- Secrecy in literature
- Courts and courtiers in literature
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Pensée politique et sociale
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Political and social views
- Secretaries -- England -- Biography
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