Spenser’s Heavenly Elizabeth

Providential History in The Faerie Queene

von Donald Stump

337 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene . Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the loves and wars of an Arthurian realm that mirrors Elizabethan England, Spenser explores the crises that shaped Elizabeth’s reign: her break with the pope to create a reformed English Church, her standoff with Mary, Queen of Scots, offensives against Irish rebels and Spanish troops, confrontations with assassins and foreign invaders, and the apocalyptic expectations of the English people in a time of national transformation. Brilliantly reconciling moral and historicist readings, this volume offers a major new interpretation of The Faerie Queene .

• Reihe: Queenship and Power
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783030271176
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing