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Genealogies of “reason”, “utility”, and “knowledge”. Humanism and the Scientific Revolution.

In Ireland, genealogy didn’t always follow strict blood lines. Among Irish clans, a foster mother could ensure political alliances through the ‘physical act of nursing, ‘literally ‘nourish[ing] Irishness’ (60).

RUSS LEO. The Species-Life of Worldlings. Marx famously derided Edmund Spenser as “Elizabeths Arschkissende Poet,” identifying Spenser as a steward of property at an integral stage in the genealogy of

identified, it was also overlaid with ideas of lineage, genealogy and aristocracy.[6] James Nohrnberg has argued that apart from its association with honour, Timias’s name also generates meaning from ... 6] This was expressed by the gentry through

Professor Rosenbaum argues that Spenser sought to rehabilitate Merlin to conform to Protestant doctrine, distancing him from Catholicism so that he could support Elizabeth’s Protestant genealogy as a “godly magistrate”

Genealogies of “reason”, “utility”, and “knowledge”. Humanism and the Scientific Revolution.

Melanie Lo. University of Colorado Boulder. Throughout The Faerie Queene, Spenser melds the overarching narrative of his knights’ quests with distinctly non-poetic forms such as chronicles, genealogies, and prophecy. ... This description foregrounds

My interests are driven by two overarching aims: to forge alternate genealogies and critical frameworks for eighteenth-century literatures by practicing reading in global terms that account for the significance of

Multiple, competing lexical genealogies might well be allowed to share space in an argument (or a poem), and even an avowedly spurious etymology could be valued for its aptness.

ii]. For an excellent genealogy of the word ecology that models early modern discourses as an archive of proto-ecological thinking, see Peter Remein, The Concept of Nature in Early Modern ... I am grateful to Timothy Morton for this reference. In Spenser