Comic Spenser

Faith, folly, and The Faerie Queene

AvVictoria Coldham-Fussell

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria Coldham-Fussell demonstrates that humour goes to the heart of Spenser’s moral and doctrinal preoccupations. She charts amusing rifts between the poem’s ambitious and idealising postures and its Protestant vision of corruptible human nature; yet contends that Spenserian humour is an expression of tolerance and faith as well as an instrument of satire. This study’s application of modern comic theory to a key text of the English Renaissance and its detailed survey of the comic influences that shaped Spenser’s literary milieu will be indispensable to teachers of the Renaissance period, to students of comic literature, and to established Spenserians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-18
Mått:138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:304 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Spenser
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526167040

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Victoria Coldham-Fussell is a freelance writer and independent scholar

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'Laudably clear and jargon-free and including extensive notes, Comic Spenser will be useful for nonspecialists, and it will open intriguing avenues of interpretation for more advanced students. Coldham-Fussell provides extensive notes.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)'...the book provides a strong argument that a full understanding of Spenser’s moral allegory requires greater attention to the role he envisions for humor and laughter in the epic.'The Journal of British Studies'Comic Spenser, with its richly detailed explorations of book 1, is a new resource for fresh and interesting ideas on this most-taught (if taught at all) part of The F.Q.'Renaissance Quarterly

Innehållsförteckning

List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Spencer and the comic Renaissance Chapter 2 Humour and Heroism Chapter 3 Spenser’s Bawdy; Or, Red Crosse’s Problem with Desire Chapter 4 Laughing at Love: FQ III-IV Chapter 5 Parody and Panegyric Epilogue Humour and Allegory Bibliography