"Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate collections and above."-Choice." "This book is a valuable, insightful, and refreshing excursion into the temporal and spatial worlds of Spenser's fiction, using solid textual support to enhance a solid perceptive reading." -- Sixteenth Century Journal "Erickson has done a real service in re-opening this line of inquiry and in proposing a new way of understanding how Spenser integrates epic and romance." -- Spenser Newsletter "Clearly written, informative, and stimulating." -- Sidney Journal
Introduction Mapping Multiplicity; Chapter 1 Epic and History; Chapter 2 Epic and Romance; Chapter 3 The Epic World of the Faerie Queene; Chapter 4 Britain and the Epic Quests;