Margaret Christian

Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis

A context for The Faerie Queene

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Produktbeschreibung

Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083846
• ISBN-10: 0719083842
• Artikelnr.: 47271280

Autorenporträt

Margaret Christian is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley Campus

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A context for The Faerie Queene Part I: Backgrounds:
allegorical reading in Spenser's England 1. Traditional scriptural
interpretation and sixteenth-century allegoresis: old and new 2.
Allegorical reading in occasional Elizabethan liturgies 3. Allegorical
reading in sermon references to history and current events Part II: The
preachers' Bible and Spenser's Faerie Queene: alternate allegories 4. 'The
ground of Storie': genealogy in biblical exegesis and the Legend of
Temperance 5. 'Waues of weary wretchednesse': Florimell and the sea 6.
Saracens, Assyrians and Spaniards: allegories of the Armada 7. 'a goodly
amiable name for mildness': Mercilla and other Elizabethan types 8. Court
and courtesy: sermon contexts for Spenser's Book VI 9. 'Now lettest thou
thy servant depart': scriptural tradition and the close of The Faerie
Queene Conclusion Works cited Index