The Reformation of the Subject Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic |
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| Author:
| Gregerson, Linda |
| Contribution by:
| Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne
Dollimore, Jonathan
Garber, Marjorie
Goldberg, Jonathan
Vickers, Nancy
Holland, Peter
McLuskie, Kate |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-03490-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $82.95 |
Book Description:
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Reformation iconoclasts found verbal figures dangerous, because SH like pictures or statuary SH they were capable of shaping and thus of waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation produced the defining monuments of English epic. Through detailed readings of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, and using feminist, psychoanalytic, political, and formal analysis, Linda Gregerson traces the strategies by which Spenser, and then Milton, distinguished their poems from idols,...
More DescriptionReformation iconoclasts found verbal figures dangerous, because SH like pictures or statuary SH they were capable of shaping and thus of waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation produced the defining monuments of English epic. Through detailed readings of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, and using feminist, psychoanalytic, political, and formal analysis, Linda Gregerson traces the strategies by which Spenser, and then Milton, distinguished their poems from idols, while making the epic poem an instrument for the reformation of the reading and political subject.