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The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book

Reformation iconoclasts found verbal figures dangerous, because SH like pictures or statuary SH they were capable of shaping and thus of waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation produced the defining monuments of English epic. Through detailed readings of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, and using feminist, psychoanalytic, political, and formal analysis, Linda Gregerson traces the strategies by which Spenser, and then Milton, distinguished their poems from idols, while making the epic poem an instrument for the reformation of the reading and political subject.Read More

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    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.

  • 0521034906
  • 9780521034906
  • Linda Gregerson
  • 14 December 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 296
  • New Ed
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