Spensers Secret Career

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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–, 99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss’, s book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in accounts of Spenser’, s professional and social ambitions, informed his poetic career. The study takes issue with prevailing historicist accounts which see Spenser’, s careerism as shaped entirely by service to the court and as focused on a single-minded pursuit of laureateship along a Virgilian career route from pastoral to epic. It presents an alternative picture, and argues that for Spenser the manipulation of secrets provided a strategy for self-promotion and a means of measuring his distance from royal and aristocratic power. Spenser’, s Secret Career throws light on Spenser and on ideas of gender, power and subjecthood in the Renaissance.

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