Anne Prescott wrote:-
> I find this thread mighty peculiar and I'm not sure I really want to
> extend it further, but for articles/books that deal with Spenser's
> relation to Harvey and for any possible homoerotic overtone, one should
> look not only at Jonathan Goldberg's relevant book and essays but do an
> MLA data base check for materials on Richard Barnfield--one essay by
> Giantvalley, whose first name I have forgotten touches on Barnfield,
> Drayton, and as I recall Spenser.
I have read a piece by Andrew Worrall on Barnfield and he refers
to someone called Giantvalley -- can you point me to where his
essay may be found?
>I have a related piece myself on
> Barnfield, Spenser, the January Eclogue coming out in a volume edited by
> Ken Borris and George Klawitter.
That must be the book that I am waiting for -- was it supposed to
be out last spring?
>Most important here is the impact of
> Virgil's second eclogue (on which see also Greg Bredbeck, e.g., on
> Marlowe). The point is that Harvey and spenser and the January eclogue is
> a rich and complex topic that involves their individual human relations,
> sure, but also a literary tradition, a shared memory of a very--I think
> "homosocial" might be the term here--education that involved pastoral and
> excluded women and was more for the young than for those on whom Saturn or
> even Jove shone. I don't know what the relation of Spenser and Harvey was,
> exactly, although Nashe called Spenser's affection for Harvey ("this boil
> on
> the brow of the university") his only fault. But that E.K. (and
> Spenser) are flirting with Rome-derived notions of what we (but probably
> not they) would call homosexuality, or homoeroticism, seems to me quite
> clear. Why they do so, and to what end (so to speak), I don't
> know. Bonding? What is amusing/intriguing is to see Richard Barnfield
> imitate E.K. in forms of denial that do not really deny. Anne Prescott.
I have Grosart's book on 'Barnfield' and his works and have been
studying them most carefully. My conclusion is that 'Barnfield' was
another of the many pseudonyms that Marlowe adopted when he
was exiled in 1593. But that is another story... :-)
Peter Zenner
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