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Reading and not reading The faerie queene : Spenser and the making of literary criticism / Catherine Nicholson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Catherine, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, English.
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The 400-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem - and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: General Ends and First Essentials
- 1 “The Falsest Twoo”: Forging the Scholarly Reader
- 2 Una’s Line: Child Readers and the Afterlife of Fiction
- 3 Mining the Text: Avid Readers in the Legend of Temperance
- 4 Half-Envying: The Interested Reader and the Partial Marriage Plot
- 5 Reading against Time: Crisis in The Faerie Queene
- 6 Blatant Beasts: Encounters with Other Readers
- Coda: Reading to the End
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9780691201597
- 0691201595
- OCLC:
- 1119979703
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