Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis
A context for The Faerie Queene
Series edited by J. B. Lethbridge, Margaret Christian
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Author Biography
J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen University. Margaret Christian is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley Campus.
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date September 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719083846
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 70 GBP
- Pages272
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Illustration1 black & white illustration
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: 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