Table of Contents
Introduction: Of letters and the man: Sir Walter Ralegh – Christopher M. Armitage, Thomas Herron and Julian Lethbridge
1. Ralegh in ruins, Ralegh on the rocks: Sir Wa’ter’s two books of mutabilitie and their subject’s allegorical presence in select Spenserean narratives and complaints – James Nohrnberg
2. Spenser and Ralegh: friendship and literary patronage – Wayne Erickson
3. Love’s ‘emperye’: Ralegh’s ‘Ocean to Scinthia’, Spenser’s ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’ and The Faerie Queene IV.vii in colonial context – Thomas Herron
4. ‘Bellphebes course is now observde no more’: Ralegh, Spenser and the literary politics of Cynthia holograph – Anna Beer
5. Replying to Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply”: allusion, anti-pastoral, and four centuries of pastoral invitations – Hannibal Hamlin
6. “Moving on the Waters”: metaphor and mental space in Ralegh’s History of the World – Michael Booth
7. Water Ralegh’s liquid narrative: The Discoverie of Guiana – Lowell Duckert
8. Ralegh, Harriot, and Anglo-American ethnography – Alden T. Vaughan
9. 'most fond and fruitlesse warre’: Ralegh and the call to arms – Andrew Hiscock
10. Ralegh’s “As You Came from the Holy Land” and the rival virgin queens of late sixteenth-century England – Gary Waller
11. Patrilineal Ralegh – Judith Owens
12. Ralegh’s image in art – Dr. Vivienne Westbrook
13. Where’s Walter? The screen incarnations of Sir Walter Ralegh – Susan Anderson
Sir Walter Ralegh bibliography (1986–2010) – Christopher M. Armitage
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