Enabling engagements
Subtitle: Edmund Spenser and the poetics of patronage
By: Judith Owens.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Relations with literary patrons.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Authorship.; Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literary patrons -- Great Britain.
Description: "Enabling Engagements contributes to current critical debates regarding early modern subjectivity and early modern cultural capital. In stressing the boldness of Edmund Spenser's poetics of patronage, Judith Owens shows that Elizabethans could and did excercise agency within a wide range of institutions. By consistently challenging assumptions of courtly hegemony in early modern society, Owens suggests a new appraisal of the processes of cultural commodification."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. [163]-175 and index.