TY - BOOK AU - Owens,Judith TI - Enabling engagements: Edmund Spenser and the poetics of patronage SN - 9780773569973 AV - PR2363 .O944 2002eb U1 - 821/.3 22 PY - 2002/// CY - Montreal, Que. PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Spenser, Edmund, KW - Spenser, Edmund. KW - Authors and patrons KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - Écrivains et mécènes KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 16e siècle KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Shakespeare KW - bisacsh KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index; Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Contexts -- 2 The Shepheardes Calender -- 3 Commendatory Verses -- 4 The Dedicatory Sonnets -- 5 Ralegh in The Faerie Queene iii -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index N2 - "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."--Jacket UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=404103 ER -