Spenserian Moments / / Gordon Teskey.
Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While Milton’s rigid ideology is now stale, Spenser’s allegories remain vital, inviting new questions an...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on References, Texts, and Quotations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: ON SPENSER -- 1. Other Poets -- 2. Toward Fairy Land -- 3. In Ireland -- 4. A Survey of The Faerie Queene -- PART TWO: ON ALLEGORY -- 5. Allegory in The Faerie Queene -- 6. For a General Theory of Allegory -- 7. Death in an Allegory -- 8. Positioning Spenser’s Letter to Raleigh -- 9. Allegory and Renaissance Critical Theory -- 10. A Field Theory of Allegory -- PART THREE: ON THINKING -- 11. From Moment to Moment -- 12. Thinking Moments in The Faerie Queene -- 13. Courtesy and Thinking -- 14. The Thinking of History in Spenserian Romance -- PART FOUR: ON CHANGE -- 15. Colonial Allegories in Paris -- 16. Courtesy and the Graces -- 17. Night Thoughts on Mutability -- 18. Mutability Ascendant -- Afterword: The Colossi of Memnon -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index |
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Summary: | Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While Milton’s rigid ideology is now stale, Spenser’s allegories remain vital, inviting new questions and visions, heralding a constantly changing future. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674243514 9783110652031 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674243514 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Gordon Teskey. |