Temperate Conquest examines Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
within the context of England's international relations and
colonial expansion during the Elizabethan period. It is a
significant reconsideration of Book 2, which is often regarded as
one of the least topical and thus least engaging books of The
Faerie Queene.
David Read argues that Sir Guyon's quest in Book 2 of The Faerie
Queene serves as a vehicle for Spenser to imagine a model of
English colonial activity in the New World. Yet Spenser's effort in
this direction faces serious obstacles, since the primary
sixteenth-century model for New World colonialism, Spain, has to be
presented as the ideological and moral antithesis of England. Book
2 captures Spenser's struggle to express England's expansionist
aspirations while distinguishing imperial England from imperial
Spain.
This book responds to the recent wave of work emphasizing
Spenser's tenure in Ireland as defining his interest with English
colonialism. Temperate Conquests contains much that will interest
students and scholars of Edmund Spenser, Renaissance studies, and
European colonialism.
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