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Spenser’s Heavenly Elizabeth

Spenser’s Heavenly Elizabeth

Providential History in The Faerie Queene

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This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s  The Faerie Queene . Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the loves and wars of an Arthurian realm that mirrors Elizabethan England, Spenser explores the crises that shaped Elizabeth’s reign: her break with the pope to create a reformed English Church, her standoff with Mary, Queen of Scots, offensives against Irish rebels and Spanish troops, confrontations with assassins and foreign invaders, and the apocalyptic expectations of the English people in a time of national transformation. Brilliantly reconciling moral and historicist readings, this volume offers a major new interpretation of  The Faerie Queene .

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novembre 2019, 337 Pages, Queenship and Power, Anglais
Springer Nature EN
978-3-030-27114-5

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