Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis - A Context for the Faerie Queene

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Christian is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley Campus Klappentext Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene. Zusammenfassung Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A context for The Faerie Queene Part 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 Queene ConclusionWorks citedIndex

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• Authors: Margaret Christian
• Assisted by: J. B. Lethbridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2016
• EAN: 9780719083846
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8384-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies