The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures

by Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. In it he fused traditions of medieval romance and classical epic, his religious and political allegory creating a Protestant alternative to the Catholic romances rejected by humanists and Puritans. The poem was later made over as children's literature, retold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476666172
• ISBN13: 9781476666174
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher