A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley

A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley

A Catholic response to The Faerie Queene

By Susannah Monta Edited by Susannah Monta
Hardcover $140.00

$140.00

Publication Date: 7th March 2016

Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. Read More
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Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. Read More
Description
Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England’s greatest poem. Through its sophisticated response to Spenser, A Fig for Fortune challenges a contemporary literary culture in which Protestant habits of thought and representation were gaining dominance. This book comprises the poem’s first scholarly edition. It offers a carefully annotated edition of the 2000-line poem, an overview of English Catholic history in the sixteenth century, a full biography of Anthony Copley, an assessment of his engagement with Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and information on the book’s early print history. Extensive support for student readers makes it possible to teach Copley’s poem alongside The Faerie Queene for the first time.
Details
  • Price: $140.00
  • Pages: 168
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Series: The Manchester Spenser
  • Publication Date: 7th March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780719086977
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / General
    LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Reviews

‘One of the volume’s many virtues is the glimpse it provides into the complex world of Elizabethan Catholicism.’
Claire McEachern, The Spenser Review 47.1 (Winter 2017)

Author Bio
Susannah Brietz Monta is Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Table of Contents

Introduction
Anthony Copley’s biography
Thomas Copley
The Copley family
Anthony Copley’s life
Early modern English Catholicism
A Fig for Fortune in literary context
Notes on the 1596 printing
Editing practices
‘To the Right Honourable Anthonie Browne, L. Vicompt Mont-ague, everlasting glorie to his vertues’
‘The Argument to the Reader’
A Fig for Fortune
Index

Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England’s greatest poem. Through its sophisticated response to Spenser, A Fig for Fortune challenges a contemporary literary culture in which Protestant habits of thought and representation were gaining dominance. This book comprises the poem’s first scholarly edition. It offers a carefully annotated edition of the 2000-line poem, an overview of English Catholic history in the sixteenth century, a full biography of Anthony Copley, an assessment of his engagement with Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and information on the book’s early print history. Extensive support for student readers makes it possible to teach Copley’s poem alongside The Faerie Queene for the first time.
  • Price: $140.00
  • Pages: 168
  • Carton Quantity: 20
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Series: The Manchester Spenser
  • Publication Date: 7th March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780719086977
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / General
    LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

‘One of the volume’s many virtues is the glimpse it provides into the complex world of Elizabethan Catholicism.’
Claire McEachern, The Spenser Review 47.1 (Winter 2017)

Susannah Brietz Monta is Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame

Introduction
Anthony Copley’s biography
Thomas Copley
The Copley family
Anthony Copley’s life
Early modern English Catholicism
A Fig for Fortune in literary context
Notes on the 1596 printing
Editing practices
‘To the Right Honourable Anthonie Browne, L. Vicompt Mont-ague, everlasting glorie to his vertues’
‘The Argument to the Reader’
A Fig for Fortune
Index