The Faerie Queene (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781138808638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 292 str.

Humphrey Tonkin

Opis

This volume, first published in 1989, offers detailed readings of The Faerie Queene's seven books, along with introductory chapters on Spenser’s career, and the roots of the poem in the English and continental traditions. Humphrey Tonkin pays particular attention to the work’s political and cultural role and its contribution to the development of Elizabethan ideology. A comprehensive analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to literature students and academics alike.

Spis treści

Preface;  A Note on Texts;  1. Edmund Spenser  2. Epic and Empire  3. Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves  4. Letter and Spirit  5. Holiness  6. Temperance  7. Chastity  8. Friendship  9. Justice  10. Courtesy  11. Mutability  12. Spenser’s Successors  13. Most Poetical of Poets  14. Spenser among the Critics;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Humphrey Tonkin