The art of The faerie queene / Richard Danson Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Richard Danson, author.

Series:

Manchester Spenser.

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Spenser, Edmund.

Epic poetry, English--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'The Art of The Faerie Queene' offers a new approach to Spenser's massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories.

Contents:

Introduction: Tightrope walking in an afflicted style

1: Doubtful words: the vocabulary of 'The Faerie Queene'

2: Uncommon lines: lineation and metre

3: Proportionable returns: rhyme, meaning and experience

4: Unusual staff: The Archaeology of the Spenserian Stanza

5: Another cast in different hews: Canto form

6: Spacious ways: narratives and narrators

Appendix: Stanza Lead Words

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 5, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526151797

1526151790

9781526134622

1526134624

OCLC:

1467879759