The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic Contributor(s): Gregerson, Linda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521034906 ISBN-13: 9780521034906 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same distrust and aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of shaping and thus waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation also produced the defining monuments of English epic. In an extended analysis, both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Linda Gregerson traces the contradictory cultural roots of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, illuminating the ideological, political, and gender conflicts that Spenser and Milton confronted as they transformed the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.032 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |