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Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero (Paperback)
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Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero (Paperback)
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This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the
three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene,
Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the
relationship between the poems' primary heroes, Arthur and the Son,
who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes,
Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks
back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism in
classical, Medieval, and Italian Renaissance literature,
investigates the ways in which Spenser and Milton adapted the
model, and demonstrates how the Jesus of Paradise Regained can be
seen as the culmination of this tradition. Challenging the
opposition between Calvinist, allegorical Spenser and Arminian,
dramatic Milton, this book offers a new account of their doctrinal
and literary affinities within the European epic tradition. Arguing
that Spenser influenced Milton in fundamental ways, Bond
establishes a firmer structural and thematic link between the two
authors, and shows how they transformed a strongly antifeminist
genre by the addition of a crucial, although at times ambivalent,
heroine.He also proposes solutions to some of the most difficult
and controversial theological cruxes posed by these poems, in
particular Spenser's attitude to free will and Milton's to the
Trinity. By providing a deeper understanding of the religious
agendas of these epics, this book encourages a rapprochement
between scholarly approaches that are too narrowly concerned with
either theology or poetics.
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