Spenser's heavenly Elizabeth : providential history in The faerie queene /
This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser's epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I's life. By narrating the loves and wars of an A...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019].
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| Series: | Queenship and power.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I, Spenser's method and artistry: Introduction to Spenser's art of royal encomium
- Spenser, Elizabeth, and the problem of flattery
- Gloriana, Biblical typology, and moral transfiguration
- Part II, Spenser's Elizabeth: Una and the English Reformation
- The maturation of the Queen
- The Queen in her glory
- Part III, The faerie queen in context: Una, Mercilla, and the Elizabethan apocalypse
- Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen.