Spenser's Famous Flight

by Patrick Cheney

Book Overview

In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation.

Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487598181
• ISBN13: 9781487598181
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher