Edmund Spenser and Animal Life

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Edmund Spenser and Animal Studies
	Animals, Spenser, and Literary Form
	Spenser in Early Modern Animal Studies
	Chapter Summaries
	References
Part I: Animals and Cultural Practices
Chapter 2: Did Edmund Dream of Shorthaired Sheep?
	Pastoral and Symbolic Animals
	Real Sheep
	Poetic Sheep
	Conclusion: The Silence of the Lambs
	References
Chapter 3: Spenser, Marine Life, and the Metaphysics of Extinction: Overfishing and the True Monsters of the Deep
	Maritime Pastoral: Spenser’s Sea Shepherd and the ‘Seas Posterity’
	Spenser and the Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus
	References
Part II: Animals, Slavery, and Race
Chapter 4: The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67
	‘For the sake of man’
	Death or Capture
	Sonnet 67
	Hounds of Love
	A Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Errour’s Repercussions: Dragons, Race, and Animality in The Faerie Queene
	Theorising Animality and/with Race
	Early Modern Dragons
	St George, Errour, and the Dragon
	Beasts and Race in the ‘Chronicle of Briton Kings’
	Conclusion
	References
Part III: Animals in Complaints
Chapter 6: Spenser’s ‘Apish Crue’: Aping in Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale
	Performing Apes
	Speech and the Animal Body
	Spenser’s Ape
	Pain and Mimesis
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Scorned Little Creatures?: Insects and Genre in Complaints (1591)
	How Animals Mean
	Scorning All Difference of Great and Small
	Pastoral Stalemate
	Formal Overflow
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Spenser’s Parenthetical Butterflies
	Flyover
	About Butterflies
	A Parenthesis
	Parentheses
	)Disruptive( Hospitality in ‘Muiopotmos’
	Bibliography
Part IV: Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene
Chapter 9: ‘Good to Think [With]’: Spenser’s Animals Against Materiality
	Good to Think With
	Animal Figuration
	Unlike a Goat, or the Case of Malbecco
	Like Wary Hind, or Love’s Knot
	Animals Against Materiality
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: A Fruitful-Headed Beast?: Rhyme in The Faerie Queene
	‘Brutish’ Poetry and Hydran Beasts
	‘Fruitfull-Headed’ Rhyme
	Conclusion: Spenser’s ‘Organic’ Form
	Appendix
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Coursers and Courses in The Faerie Queene
	Coursers and Courses in The Faerie Queene
	Ecologies of Movement: Brigadore
	Courses and Moments: Florimell’s Palfrey
	Conclusion: ‘But Forward Rode, and Kept Her Ready Way’
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: Spenser’s Wings
	Light and Heavy Wings
	Falling and Stalling in Similes
	Conclusion: A Hard-Edged Poetics of Flight
	Bibliography
Chapter 13: Coda
	References
Index