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

Author:   Margaret Christian
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526139504


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 July 2019
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Spenserian Allegory and Elizabethan Biblical Exegesis: A Context for the Faerie Queene


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Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large'. This is the first book-length study to clarify Spenser's comparison by introducing readers to the biblical typologies of contemporary sermons and liturgies. The result demonstrates that 'precepts ... sermoned at large' from lecterns and pulpits were themselves often 'clowdily enwrapped in allegoricall devises'. In effect, routine churchgoing prepared Spenser's first readers to enjoy and interpret The Faerie Queene. A wealth of relevant quotations invites readers to adopt an Elizabethan mindset and encounter the poem afresh. The 'chronicle history' cantos, Florimell's adventures andMercilla's judgment on Duessa all come into sharper focus when juxtaposed with contemporary religious rhetoric. -- .

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Author:   Margaret Christian
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781526139504


ISBN 10:   1526139502
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 July 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 -- .

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

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