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Prior Publication (in whole or in substantial part) ‘‘Narrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queene,’’ in Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance, ed. Theresa M. Krier (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), 87–105: now entitled ‘‘Chaucer’s and Spenser’s Reflexive Narrators.’’ ‘‘What Comes after Chaucer’s But: Adversative Constructions in Spenser,’’ in Acts of Interpretation: The Text in Its Contexts, ed. Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim, 1982), 105–18: now entitled ‘‘What Comes after Chaucer’s But in The Faerie Queene.’’ ‘‘‘A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine’: The Chaucerian Connection ,’’ English Literary Renaissance, 15 (1985), 166–74: now entitled ‘‘‘Pricking on the plaine’: Spenser’s Intertextual Beginnings and Endings ’’ (䉷 Blackwell/Wiley). ‘‘Allegory, Irony, Despair: Chaucer’s Pardoner’s and Franklin’s Tales and Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Books I and III,’’ in Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, and Technologies, ed. Zachary Lesser and Benedict Robinson (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006), 71–89. ‘‘ ‘Myn auctour’: Spenser’s Enabling Fiction and Eumnestes’ ‘immortall scrine,’’’ in Unfolded Tales: Studies in Renaissance Romance, ed. George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989), 16–31: now entitled ‘‘Eumnestes’ ‘immortall scrine’: Spenser’s Archive.’’ ‘‘Prudence and Her Silence: Spenser’s Use of Chaucer’s Melibee,’’ ELH, 62 (1995), 29–46: now entitled ‘‘Spenser’s Use of Chaucer’s Melibee: Allegory , Narrative, History’’ (䉷 Johns Hopkins University Press). ‘‘‘Nat worth a boterflye’: Muiopotmos and The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,’’ Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1 (1971), 89–106: now entitled ‘‘Spenser ’s Muiopotmos and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale’’ (䉷 Duke University Press). ‘‘Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody ,’’ in The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition, ed. ix x Prior Publication Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe (New York: Garland, 1988), 193–206: now entitled ‘‘Arthur and Argante: Parodying the Ideal Vision ’’ (䉷 Routledge/Taylor and Francis). ‘‘‘The ‘couert vele’: Chaucer, Spenser, and Venus,’’ English Literary Renaissance , 24 (1994), 638–59: now entitled ‘‘Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls and Refractions of a Veiled Venus in The Faerie Queene’’ (䉷 Blackwell/ Wiley). ‘‘The Antiquities of Fairyland and Ireland,’’ JEGP, 86 (1987), 199–214 (䉷 University of Illinois Press). ‘‘Better a mischief than an inconvenience: ‘The saiyng self’ in Spenser’s View, or, How many meanings can stand on the head of a proverb?’’ in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age, ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999), 219–33: now entitled ‘‘Better a mischief than an inconvenience: ‘The saiyng self’ in Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland.’’ ‘‘The Conspiracy of Realism: Impasse and Vision in King Lear,’’ Studies in Philology, 84 (1987), 1–23: now entitled ‘‘The Conspiracy of Realism: Impasse and Vision in The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s King Lear’’ (䉷 University of North Carolina Press). ‘‘Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Forms of Desire,’’ in Grief and Gender, –, ed. Jennifer C. Vaught, with Lynne Dickson Bruckner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 149–60. ‘‘Flowers and Boars: Surmounting Sexual Binarism in Spenser’s Garden of Adonis,’’ Spenser Studies, 23 (forthcoming 2008, 䉷 AMS Press). ‘‘Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss,’’ in A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. David Lee Miller and Nina Levine (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2009): now entitled ‘‘Androcentrism and Acrasian Fantasies in the Bower of Bliss.’’ ‘‘Beyond Binarism: Eros/Death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser’s Faerie Queene,’’ in Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites, ed. J. B. Lethbridge (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2008). ‘‘Passion and Patience in Shakespeare and Milton,’’ Spenser Studies, 21 (2007), 2005–20 (䉷 AMS Press). Each essay appears herein with the permission of the original publisher and holder of copyright, the latter identical with the publisher unless otherwise indicated. ...

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