Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis

A Context for the Faerie Queene

AvMargaret Christian

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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'. This 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 andMercilla's judgment on Duessa all come into sharper focus when juxtaposed with contemporary religious rhetoric.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-03
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Spenser
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526139504

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Margaret Christian is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley Campus

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Introduction: A context for The Faerie QueenePart I: Backgrounds: allegorical reading in Spenser's England1. Traditional scriptural interpretation and sixteenth-century allegoresis: old and new 2. Allegorical reading in occasional Elizabethan liturgies 3. Allegorical reading in sermon references to history and current eventsPart II: The preachers' Bible and Spenser's Faerie Queene: alternate allegories4. 'The ground of Storie': genealogy in biblical exegesis and the Legend of Temperance5. 'Waues of weary wretchednesse': Florimell and the sea6. Saracens, Assyrians and Spaniards: allegories of the Armada7. 'a goodly amiable name for mildness': Mercilla and other Elizabethan types8. Court and courtesy: sermon contexts for Spenser's Book VI 9. 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart': scriptural tradition and the close of The Faerie QueeneConclusionWorks citedIndex