Figuring Justice
Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16345895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter S H Lim (0000-0002-7062-1940, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-70 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v31i1.11566 |
| OpenAlex | W2604177747 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Edmund Spenser is a vocal spokesman for the colonization of Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, he provides one of the most sustained imperialist articulations in Elizabethan England. And in Book V of The Faerie Queene, he promulgates a vision of justice that is necessary for containing individual and social dissent, as well as for consolidating monarchical authority. Spenser wants a similar form of relentless justice applied to controlling the recalcitrant Irish, but discovers that his implacable imperialist policy stands in direct opposition to Queen Elizabeth’s own
Colonialism · Dissent · Economic Justice · Ideology · Irish · Monarchy · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |