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

Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene.

List of contents

Introduction: A context for The Faerie Queene
Part I: Backgrounds: allegorical reading in Spenser's England
1. 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 events
Part II: The preachers' Bible and Spenser's Faerie Queene: alternate allegories
4. 'The ground of Storie': genealogy in biblical exegesis and the Legend of Temperance
5. 'Waues of weary wretchednesse': Florimell and the sea
6. Saracens, Assyrians and Spaniards: allegories of the Armada
7. 'a goodly amiable name for mildness': Mercilla and other Elizabethan types
8. 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
Conclusion
Works cited
Index

About the author

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

Summary

Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Christian
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781526139504
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3950-4
• 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