The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series)
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521034906
ISBN13:9780521034906
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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