Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth: Providential History in the Faerie Queene

by Donald Stump

This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser's epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I's life. By narrating the loves and wars of an Arthurian realm that mirrors Elizabethan England, Spenser explores the crises that shaped Elizabeth's reign: her break with the pope to create a reformed English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030271145
• ISBN13: 9783030271145
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"