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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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