Description: Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis : A Context for the Faerie Queene, Hardcover by Christian, Margaret, ISBN 0719083842, ISBN-13 9780719083846, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large'. Spenser's allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis is the first book-length study to clarify Spenser's comparison by introducing readers to the biblical typologies of contemporary sermons and liturgies. The result demonstrates that 'precepts . . . sermoned at large' from lecterns and pulpits were themselves often 'clowdily enwrapped in allegoricall devises'. In effect, routine churchgoing prepared Spenser's first readers to enjoy and interpret The Faerie Queene. A wealth of relevant quotations invites readers to adopt an Elizabethan mindset and encounter the poem afresh. The 'chronicle history' cantos, Florimell's adventures, the Souldan episode, Mercilla's judgment on Duessa and even the two stanzas that close the Mutabilitie fragment, all come into sharper focus when juxtaposed with contemporary religious rhetoric.
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Book Title: Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis : a Context for the Faerie Queene
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Renaissance, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Author: Margaret Christian
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Book Series: The Manchester Spenser Ser.
Format: Hardcover
