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God's only daughter : Spenser's Una as the invisible Church
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walls, Kathryn, Author.
- Series:
- Manchester Spenser.
- The Manchester Spenser God's only daughter
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This full-length study is devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of book one of 'The Faerie Queene'. Challenging the standard identification of Spenser's Una with the post-Reformation Church in England, it argues that she stands, rather, for the community of the redeemed, the invisible Church, whose membership is known by God alone.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Incarnation, allegory, and idolatry
- The fallibility of Una
- Una redeemed
- Una as the City of God
- The City of God in history
- Canto VI : the Church's mission to the Gentiles
- Una's adiaphoric dwarf
- Una's Trinitarian dimension
- The multiplication of Una.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-651-4
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