Literary and Visual Ralegh

409 Pages·2013·7.117 MB·English

by  Christopher M. Armitage (editor)

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Christopher M. Armitage is Professor of Distinguished Teaching
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The Manchester Spenser is a monograph and text series devoted to historical and textual
approaches to Edmund Spenser – to his life, times, places, works and contemporaries.
A growing body of work in Spenser and Renaissance studies, fresh with confidence
and curiosity and based on solid historical research, is being written in response to a
general sense that our ability to interpret texts is becoming limited without the excavation
of further knowledge. So the importance of research in nearby disciplines is quickly being
recognized, and interest renewed: history, archaeology, religious or theological history,
book history, translation, lexicography, commentary and glossary – these require treat-
ment for and by students of Spenser.
The Manchester Spenser, to feed, foster and build on these refreshed attitudes, aims to
publish reference tools, critical, historical, biographical and archaeological monographs on
or related to Spenser, from several disciplines, and to publish editions of primary sources
and classroom texts of a more wide-ranging scope.
The Manchester Spenser consists of work with stamina, high standards of scholarship
and research, adroit handling of evidence, rigour of argument, exposition and documenta-
tion.
The series will encourage and assist research into, and develop the readership of, one
of the richest and most complex writers of the early modern period.
General Editor J. B. Lethbridge
Editorial Board Helen Cooper, Thomas Herron, Carol V. Kaske,
James C. Nohrnberg & Brian Vickers
Also available
Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on
Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos Jane Grogan (ed.)
Castles and Colonists: An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland Eric Klingelhofer
Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites J. B. Lethbridge (ed.)
Renaissance erotic romance: Philhellene Protestantism,
Renaissance translation and English literary politics Victor Skretkowicz
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Literary and
visual Ralegh
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CHRiS toPHER M. ARMitAGE
Manchester University Press
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Contents
List of illustrations page vii
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on contributors xi
introduction: of letters and the man: Sir Walter Ralegh 1
Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron and Julian Lethbridge
1 Raleigh in ruins, Raleigh on the rocks: Sir Wa’ter’s two Books
of Mutabilitie and their subject’s allegorical presence in select
Spenserean narratives and complaints
James Nohrnberg 31
2 Spenser and Ralegh: Friendship and Literary Patronage
Wayne Erickson 89
3 Love’s ‘emperye’: Raleigh’s ‘ocean to Scinthia’, Spenser’s ‘Colin
Clouts Come Home Againe’ and The Faerie Queene iV.vii
in colonial context
Thomas Herron 100
4 ‘Bellphebes course is now observde no more’: Ralegh, Spenser,
and the literary politics of the Cynthia holograph
Anna Beer 140
5 Replying to Raleigh’s ‘The Nymph’s Reply’: Allusion,
anti-pastoral, and four centuries of pastoral invitations
Hannibal Hamlin 166
6 ‘Moving on the waters’: Metaphor and mental space in Ralegh’s
History of the World
Michael Booth 200
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7 Water Ralegh’s liquid narrative: The Discoverie of Guiana
Lowell Duckert 217
8 Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American ethnography
Alden T. Vaughan 242
9 ‘Most fond and fruitlesse warre’: Ralegh and the call to arms
Andrew Hiscock 257
10 Ralegh’s ‘As You Came from the Holy Land’ and the rival
virgin queens of late sixteenth-century England
Gary Waller 284
11 Patrilineal Ralegh
Judith Owens 302
12 Ralegh’s image in art
Vivienne Westbrook 327
13 Where’s Walter? The screen incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh
Susan Campbell Anderson 348
Sir Walter Ralegh bibliography (1986–2010)
Christopher Mead Armitage 377
index 390
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List of illustrations
7.1 A map of Guyana, with the courses of the Orinoco and the
Marañon, or Amazons; drawn about 1595 by Sir W. Raleigh
on vellum. British Library, Cartographic items Additional
MS. 17,940.a © trustees of the British Library page 218
12.1 Nicholas Hilliard, Miniature portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh
(c. 1581–84). Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery 328
12.2 Jacobus Houbraken, engraver, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1739,
from Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britian, Knapton,
London, 1734–52. © trustees of the British Museum 345
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Acknowledgements
Julian Lethbridge, General Editor of The Manchester Spenser series of
which this volume is a part, has provided, from his vast knowledge of
Ralegh’s era and scholarship about it, invaluable assistance on many
matters. Thomas Herron, of the Department of English at East Carolina
University, has been full of sustained enthusiasm, suggestions and prompt
replies. Christine Shia, Research Associate in the Journalism School at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has rescued me from
numerous electronic entanglements and handled all kinds of tasks with
exceptional dedication. Robert Anthony, Curator of the North C arolina
Collection, including its outstanding Sir Walter Ralegh Collection, at
UNC-Chapel Hill, and Thomas Nixon, Research Librarian at UNC-
Chapel Hill, have been invariably helpful. The index has been compiled
by tracy Harvin, English doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. Any
errors are my responsibility.
Generous financial assistance has been received from a grant by East
Carolina University and from an anonymous donor. Special thanks from
the General Editor of this series to John Banks at MUP.
Christopher M. Armitage
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