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Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero

By John , Spenser , Edmund;Bond , Christopher;Milton

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Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781611490664, 9781611490671, 1611490669
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
620 kB (635172 bytes)
Pages
xvii, 239 s\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Chapter 1. The Two Heroes of Epic; Chapter 2. The Transformation of Epic Heroism in the Italian Renaissance; Chapter 3. The Legend of Holiness and the Fall of Man; Chapter 4. The Salvation of Adam and the Redcrosse Knight; Chapter 5. Spenser's Arthur: The Education of a Christian Prince; Chapter 6. The Evolving Perfection of Milton's Christ; Epilogue: The Two Heroes of Wordsworth's Prelude;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 how Spenser and Milton adapted the pattern of dual heroism developed in classical and Medieval works. Challenging the opposition between Calvinist, allegorical Spenser and Arminian, dramatic Milton, this book offers a new understanding of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition

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