Spenserian Moments

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ISBN 9780674988446

Publication Date: 12/17/2019

552 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Note on References, Texts, and Quotations
Introduction
I. On Spenser
- 1. Other Poets
- 2. Toward Fairy Land
- 3. In Ireland
- 4. A Survey of The Faerie Queene
II. 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
III. 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
IV. 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

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