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Mapping The Faerie Queene - Quest Structures and the World of the Poem (Hardcover)
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Mapping The Faerie Queene - Quest Structures and the World of the Poem (Hardcover)
Series: Garland Studies in the Renaissance
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This book analyzes the "Faerie Queene's" setting, examining
Spenser's quest structures and his ideas about epic, romance, and
history. Critics almost invariably treat Spenser's Faeryland as
coextensive with the world of the poem, but this is not the case;
rather, Faeryland is part of an epic cosmos reaching from heaven
and the abode of the classical deities to demonic underground
realms. Spenser situates Faeryland within a specific spatial and
temporal terrestrial geography in which locations outside Faeryland
represent various heroic settings in political history. The
politico-historical world built around Faeryland is ripe for
analysis by contemporary historicist critics. Spenser uses
political geography, in conjunction with the time-inclusive medium
of Faeryland, to coordinate several transhistorical quests that
create a pattern of temporal mediations among sixth-century
British, 16th-century English, and biblical and prophetic versions
of history. He juxtaposes chronicle history, empirical
historiography, and cultural myth while manipulating genre to
create a world capable of accommodating his grand romantic epic
design. In mapping the world of "The Faerie Queene," the book
provides a widened context for Spenser's quest structures, a
significant contribution to the study of the poem's relation to
history, and a new perspective from which to view Spenser's debts
to classical epic, Italian romantic epic, and his native medieval
inheritance. Index.Bibliography.
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