Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.

List of illustrations
Textual note
Introduction
Part I: Orientations
1 Strange paths and perspective glasses
2 Movement and measurement
3 Feyned no where acts
4 Compassing desire: cosmography and chorography
Part II: Environments
5 Seamarks and coastal waters
6 Wetlands and Spenser's 'personal curvature'
7 Spenser's insular fictions
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Tamsin Badcoe is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol