Spenser and the discourses of Reformation England
"Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships among literature, religion, and politics in Renaissance England. Richard Mallette demonstrates how one of the great masterpieces of English literature, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, reproduces, criticizes, parodies, and transforms the discourses of England during that remarkable political and literary era."--BOOK JACKET. "According to Mallette, The Faerie Queene not only represents Reformation values but also challenges, questions, and frequently undermines Protestant assumptions. Building upon recent scholarship, particularly new historicism, Protestant poetics, feminism, and gender theory, this ambitious study traces The Faerie Queene's linkage of religion to political and social realms."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 289 pages ; 23 cm
9780803231955, 0803231954
36066126
Discourses of preaching in book I
Sermon parody and discourses of the flesh in book II
Reformation continence and Spenserian chastity in book III
Revenge and companionate marriage in book IV
Post-Armada apocalyptic discourse in book V
Providence, fortune, and free will in book VI