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.
Subjects:	Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene. Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation. Christianity and literature > England > History > 16th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the Incarnation, allegory, and idolatry
The fallibility of Una
Una redeemed
Una as the City of God
The City of God in history
Canto VI : the Church's mission to the Gentiles
Una's adiaphoric dwarf
Una's Trinitarian dimension
The multiplication of Una.