TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teskey,Gordon
TI  - Spenserian Moments
SN  - 9780674243514
AV  - PR2358 .T475 2019
U1  - 821/.3 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Epic poetry, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on References, Texts, and Quotations --; Introduction --; PART ONE: ON SPENSER --; 1. Other Poets --; 2. Toward Fairy Land --; 3. In Ireland --; 4. A Survey of The Faerie Queene --; PART TWO: ON ALLEGORY --; 5. Allegory in The Faerie Queene --; 6. For a General Theory of Allegory --; 7. Death in an Allegory --; 8. Positioning Spenser’s Letter to Raleigh --; 9. Allegory and Renaissance Critical Theory --; 10. A Field Theory of Allegory --; PART THREE: ON THINKING --; 11. From Moment to Moment --; 12. Thinking Moments in The Faerie Queene --; 13. Courtesy and Thinking --; 14. The Thinking of History in Spenserian Romance --; PART FOUR: ON CHANGE --; 15. Colonial Allegories in Paris --; 16. Courtesy and the Graces --; 17. Night Thoughts on Mutability --; 18. Mutability Ascendant --; Afterword: The Colossi of Memnon --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Credits --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While Milton’s rigid ideology is now stale, Spenser’s allegories remain vital, inviting new questions and visions, heralding a constantly changing future
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