God's only daughter : Spenser's Una as the invisible church /

Challenging the standard identification of Una, the beleaguered heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene, with the post-Reformation Church in England, arguing that she stands for the entire community of the redeemed, whose membership is known only to God.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Manchester Spenser.
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Description
Summary:Challenging the standard identification of Una, the beleaguered heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene, with the post-Reformation Church in England, arguing that she stands for the entire community of the redeemed, whose membership is known only to God.
Physical Description:xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
ISBN:9780719090370
0719090377