Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface to the Volume
Pt. 1	Materials
	Classroom Texts	3
	Additional Student Readings	5
	Introductory Bibliography	6
	Aids to Teaching	24
	Illustrations	25
Pt. 2	Approaches
	"The Hard Begin": Entering the Initial Cantos	41
	"Add Faith unto Your Force and Be Not Faint": Teaching Book 1 in the Sophomore Survey	49
	The Open Text: A Protestant Poetics of Reading and Teaching Book 1	58
	Hymen, Shield, and Journal: The Task of Interpretation	64
	"The Form and Gait of the Body": Physical Carriage, Genre, and Spenserian Allegory	72
	Challenging the Commonplace: Teaching as Conversation in Spenser's Legend of Temperance	82
	"Painted Forgery": Visual Approaches to The Faerie Queene	93
	From Allegory to Icon: Teaching Britomart with the Elizabeth Portraits	106
	Handling Elizabeth	117
	"Be Bold, Be Bold...Be Not Too Bold": The Pleasures and Perils of Teaching Book 3	126
	Finding the Feminine in Book 4	134
	"That Savage Land": Ireland in Spenser's Legend of Justice	143
	"Most Sacred Vertue She": Reading Book 5 alongside Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Justice	153
	Rethinking the Spenserian Gaze	162
	"The Triall of True Curtesie": Teaching Book 6 as Pastoral Romance	172
	Contributors and Survey Participants	181
	Works Cited	183
	Index	203