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Spenser And The Human, Ayesha Ramachandran, Melissa Sanchez
Spenser And The Human, Ayesha Ramachandran, Melissa Sanchez
Ayesha Ramachandran
A special issue of Spenser Studies, guest edited with Melissa E. Sanchez. Forthcoming in 2016.
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining In Early Modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining In Early Modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an …
How To Read The Faerie Queene: A Forum, Ayesha Ramachandran, Sarah Van Der Laan
How To Read The Faerie Queene: A Forum, Ayesha Ramachandran, Sarah Van Der Laan
Ayesha Ramachandran
A pair of roundtables at the 2014 Sixteenth Century Society Conference gathered Spenserians to reflect on the challenges of reading Spenser ourselves and helping our students through their first readings of The Faerie Queene. In the lively discussions that followed, it became clear that the question of “How to Read The Faerie Queene” continues to raise theoretical, methodological and pedagogical quandaries. In a new feature for The Spenser Review, we present shortened versions of the participants’ remarks followed by brief responses from members of the audience.