Paul J. Hecht is associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central and the author of several articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth.
J. B. Lethbridge lectures at Tübingen University and general editor of the monograph series The Manchester Spenser.

Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Notes toward a New Spenser
Paul J. Hecht
Classical, Medieval, Material
2 Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser's Virgilian Career
Syrithe Pugh
3 Spenser and the "Medieval" Past: A Question of Definition
Kathryn Walls
4 Spenser and Book History
Elisabeth Chaghafi
Spenser and Music
5 Music in Spenser
David Scott Wilson-Okamura
6 Spenser in Music
Gavin Alexander
Meter/Moment
7 Irreverent Spenseriana
April Bernard, K. Silem Mohammad
8 Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and Aesthetics
Paul J. Hecht
9 The Poetry of The Faerie Queene
J. B. Lethbridge
10 Notes on Reading in The Faerie Queene: From Moment to Moment
Gordon Teskey
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Spenser in the Moment argues that contrary to anyone's expectation, Spenser studies may be on the brink of a revolution. Bringing together scholars from three continents, it surveys established methods, and then makes the case that there may be whole worlds of Spenser that have been nearly unsee-able or unhearable in the past forty years.