Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene : : Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism / / Catherine Nicholson.
The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem—and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: General Ends and First Essentials
- 1 “The Falsest Twoo”: Forging the Scholarly Reader
- 2 Una’s Line: Child Readers and the Afterlife of Fiction
- 3 Mining the Text: Avid Readers in the Legend of Temperance
- 4 Half-Envying: The Interested Reader and the Partial Marriage Plot
- 5 Reading against Time: Crisis in The Faerie Queene
- 6 Blatant Beasts: Encounters with Other Readers
- Coda: Reading to the End
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index