The Spenser Encyclopedia - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802079237 ISBN 13: 9780802079237

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1997

Synopsis

Since its appearance in 1990, The Spenser Encyclopedia has become the reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser (1552-99), offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works, and influence. Comprehensive in scope and international in outlook, the encyclopedia contains some 700 entries by 422 contributors in 20 countries. An index provides access to material not obvious at first glance through the main body of the book, and all works cited more than once in the encyclopedia are included in an extensive bibliography. A brief historical preface and a guide to using the encyclopedia are included. This paperback edition brings this tool within range of all Spenser scholars.

About this title

About the Authors

Donald Cheney is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

A.C. Hamilton is Cappon Professor of English at Queen’s University.

From the Back Cover

'This is the Spenser encyclopedia ... far surpassing in scope, size, and ambition any Spenser handbooks, reference guides, supplements, or topical dictionaries that have preceded it ... The editors and contributors have produced a monumental work, which in scope and composition, is admirably well conceived and methodologically superior to all other such reference works on literary figures.'

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802079237
• ISBN 13: 9780802079237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 880
• Editor: Cheney Donald, Hamilton A.C., Richardson David