Exemplary Spenser : visual and poetic pedagogy in The faerie queene /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grogan, Jane (Lecturer in English literature)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Subjects:	Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene. Didactic poetry, English > History and criticism. Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Ethics. Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Technique. Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Sources. Ekphrasis. Visualization in literature. Authors and readers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : misreading Spenser
To fashion a gentleman or noble person : Xenophon and English Protestant poetics
Spenser's 'gallery of pictures'
'Bad art' or good readers? : Spenserian ekphrasis
Making a virtue of courtesy
Epilogue : civil conversation after Cyrus.