Worldmaking Spenser

"An inspirational exploration of new and updated directions for these most canonical of early modern offerings."—Comparative Literature Studies

"No other anthology of criticism on Spenser currently on the shelves can match this for breadth of topics covered, freshness of insight, number and depth of historical and cultural contexts explored, and variety of scholarly methods pursued."—Donald V. Stump

"The provocative essays in this volume present new readings of Spenser's Faerie Queene while offering reinterpretations of some of the critical approaches to it."—John T. Shawcross

"Goes some way in helping us understand the vast variety of approaches to the poet that are available to the modern reader and critic."—Notes and Queries

"A formidable volume of essays."—Reformation

"Makes a strong case for seeing in Spenser (and Spenser studies) a productive staging-ground for a variety of concerns central to early modern studies today: colonialism, gender, literary history, and self-fashioning, to name but a few."—Renaissance Quarterly

"These contributions are usefully varied in their subject matter and methodology."—SEL

"These essays . . . provide an excellent overview not only of Spenser studies but of approaches and topics current in early modern studies; they also suggest areas and directions for further work."—Spenser Review

"Evinces a sense of mobility and ease, in its transformations of apparent impasses to which readings of the last decade and a half had brought us."—Theresa M. Krier

"Showcases some of the best kinds of Spenserian criticism, while serving to defend Spenser studies in an expanding curriculum."—Year's Work in English Studies