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| Commendatory Preface | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Preface: Culture, Literature, Textuality, Sexuality | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Britomart and Concepts of Chastity in The Faerie Queene: Representations of Magnanimous Love and Moral Virtue | 19 |
| Ch. I | "Chast Desire" and "Affection Chaste": Spenser's Vision of Chaste Love and Its Relation to Protestant Thought | 27 |
| Ch. II | "And next to her sate sober Modestie": Aspects of the Double Standard in Spenser's Construction of Chastity | 61 |
| Pt. 2 | Spenser and the Fashioning of Courtly Love | 97 |
| Ch. III | "And him beside marcht amorous Desyre": Spenser and the Problem of Courtly Love | 105 |
| Ch. IV | "Of huge affection, did in pleasure melt": Chaste Desire and the Rehabilitation of Courtly Love | 135 |
| Pt. 3 | Eliminating Britomart: The Suppression of Poetic Voice in Books 4 and 5 of The Faerie Queene | 167 |
| Ch. V | "So loue of soule doth loue of bodie passe": The Mitigation of Erotic Love in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene | 173 |
| Ch. VI | "That part of Iustice, which is Equity": The Function and Displacement of Britomart in Book 5 of The Faerie Queene | 207 |
| Conclusion | 239 | |
| Notes | 245 | |
| Bibliography of Works Cited | 285 | |
| Index | 309 |
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William Gonce
reviewed The character of Britomart in Spenser's The faerie queene on August 25, 2012
The character of Britomart in Spenser's The faerie queene
This is an over-long book full of untranslated blocks of French and Latin with some surprisingly good points, let me summarize them (the good points) for you:
1) Milton tries to educate the reader through PL by repeatedly 'tempting' them to misinterpret the poem then showing them how they're wrong through the epic voice or God's speeches
2) God has to be such a boring character because He was to be authoritative and fun rhetoric is not authoritative
3) the epic voice is not always reliable
4) Milton uses some words (e.g. 'fallen', 'wand'ring', etc) repeatedly very different contexts, it's useful to keep an eye on them
5) the corruption of language after the Fall is shown through double-entendres in Adam and Eve's speeches
6) the War in Heaven is a mock-epic meant to show the superiority of Christian heroism over conventional epic poems / 'pagan' heroism
7) rereading Paradise Lost (and Milton's other texts) does a lot more to help your understanding of the poem than reading a book about it.
The fact that the chapters (more or less) follow the chronology of the poem and make it easier to read this alongside PL almost gained Fish an extra star, but then I remembered the appalling formatting of my edition.
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