"The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, ofte…
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The Pain of Reformation argues that SpenserGs 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscur…
"The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, ofte…
This study argues that the most illuminating meditation on vulnerability, masculinity, and ethics in the wake of the Reformation came from Spenser, a poet often associated with the brutalities of English rule in Ireland. The underside, or shadow, of violence in both the fantasie…
"Objects of Affection"; explores how the people of early modern England imagined, believed, hoped, and feared the material objects they exchanged with those closest to them would strengthen, sever, or otherwise shape their intimate ties to one another. More specifically, this pr…
Approaching the poem from the perspective of reception history, the present dissertation seeks to show that the Bible's role in The Faerie Queene is far more pervasive than has usually been recognized. Rather than see the biblical material as the domain of only certain sections—…
Criticism concerning Spenser's place in the prophetic tradition generally recognizes the relationship between the poet's allegory and Scriptural sources, but questions remain regarding the exact nature of his prophetic enterprise. If Spenser seeks to engage his readers in text t…
Sacramental Magic explores the animate statue in early modern romance as an emblem of the potential spiritually transformative power of objects. The tendency of New Historicism to "empty out" theology from Catholicism overlooks the continued power of sacred objects in Reformatio…
Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare's drama and Spenser's allegory …
The immediate reasons for linking Edmund Spenser and T. E. Lawrence are to be found in Lawrence's correspondence. Spenser receives reflective mention from Lawrence at each of the four major moments in Lawrence's adult life: at Carchemish (1910-1913); with the Arab Bureau (1916-1…
In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman sultans united the eastern Mediterranean into an empire that extended from the borders of Austria to the coast of Africa. At virtually the same moment, the Reformation shattered the traditional terms in which the English imagined the relatio…
This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions and for studying seminal works of early modern literature within this new analytical context. It thus furnishes unique ways to think about two closely interrelated…
Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power.
Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power.
In this work, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the 13th century through the late 17th century. He shows how these tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the…
