The Faerie Queene: A Companion for Readers

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Univ of California Press, May 28, 2021 - Literary Collections - 353 pages
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

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Contents

Foreword
9
PART
13
The Search for a Starting Point
15
Construction and Narrative Design
36
Multiple Allegory
59
PART
85
Illusion Book I
87
Distortion Book II
128
Solitude and Separation Book III
184
Unity and Reconciliation Book IV
225
Justice and Politics Book V
260
Humanity and Courtesy Book VI
300
Truth the fragment of Book VII
330
Index
339
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