Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

302. Spenser and His Irish Contemporaries

7:15–8:30 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the International Spenser Society

Presiding: David J. Baker, Univ. of Hawai‘i, Manoa

1. “‘One of Their Bards Will Say’: Beyond Spenserian Ventriloquy,” Patricia Palmer, Univ. of York

2. “‘Rime and Reason’: The Politics of Patronage in Spenser’s Ireland,” Richard A. McCabe, Univ. of Oxford, Merton Coll.

3. “‘Little but Numbersome Burnings and Bitings’: Spenser’s Irish Afterlife, 1633–79,” Deana Rankin, Univ. of Cambridge, Girton Coll.

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