The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 "Faerie Queene"

by David Lee Miller

Book Overview

The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological construct in the 1590 Faerie Queene provides the point of departure for David Lee Miller's richly detailed treatment of Spenser's allegory. In this major contribution to the study of Renaissance literature and ideology, Miller finds the poem organized by a fantasy of bodily wholeness that, like the marriage of Arthur and Gloriana, is both anticipated and deferred in the text. Originally published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691067449
• ISBN13: 9780691067445
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"