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Author Burlinson, Christopher.

Title Allegory, space and the material world in the writings of Edmund Spenser / Christopher Burlinson
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Renaissance literature, 1465-6310 ; vol. 17
Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; v. 17.
Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; PREFACE; Part I: Space and Materiality in the Realm of Allegorical Romance; 1. Accounting for the Material in Spenser's Allegory; 2. Space, Place, and Location: Inside and Outside the Poem; Part II: Architectural Space and the Status of the Object inThe Faerie Queene; 3. Galleries: Space, Mythography, and the Object; 4. Royal Chambers: Space and Presence; Part III: Beleaguered Spaces; 5. 'Goodly Workemanship': Fortifications and the Body; 6. Defended Spaces, Fast Spaces, Proper Spaces
7. The Stones of Kilcolman: Spenserian Biography, the Ruin, and the Material FragmentPart IV: The Physical and Allegorized Landscape; 8. Deforestation and the Spenserian Wood; 9. The Houses of the Poor; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Symbolism
SUBJECT Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast
Subject Allegory.
Space perception -- In literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Allegory
Space perception in literature
Symbolism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846154447
1846154448