The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic

by Linda Gregerson

Book Overview

Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same distrust and aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of shaping and thus waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation also produced the defining monuments of English epic. In an extended analysis, both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Linda Gregerson traces the contradictory cultural roots of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, illuminating the ideological,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521034906
• ISBN13: 9780521034906
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"