{"product_id":"spenserian-moments-9780674988446","title":"Spenserian Moments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the distinguished literary scholar Gordon Teskey comes an essay collection that restores Spenser to his rightful prominence in Renaissance studies, opening up the epic of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature, and arguing--controversially--that it is Spenser, not Milton, who is the more important and relevant poet for the modern world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is more adventure in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e than in any other major English poem. But the epic of Arthurian knights, ladies, and dragons in Faerie Land, beloved by C. S. Lewis, is often regarded as quaint and obscure, and few critics have analyzed the poem as an experiment in open thinking. In this remarkable collection, the renowned literary scholar Gordon Teskey examines the masterwork with care and imagination, explaining the theory of allegory--now and in Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan age--and illuminating the poem's improvisatory moments as it embarks upon fairy tale, myth, and enchantment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMilton, often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, called Spenser his \"original.\" But Teskey argues that while Milton's rigid ideology in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e has failed the test of time, Spenser's allegory invites engagement on contemporary terms ranging from power, gender, violence, and virtue ethics, to mobility, the posthuman, and the future of the planet. \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e was unfinished when Spenser died in his forties. It is the brilliant work of a poet of youthful energy and philosophical vision who opens up new questions instead of answering old ones. The epic's grand finale, \"The Mutabilitie Cantos,\" delivers a vision of human life as dizzyingly turbulent and constantly changing, leaving a future open to everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon Teskey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674988446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeskey, Gordon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gordon Teskey, Professor of English at Harvard University, is a preeminent scholar of Spenser and Milton. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eAllegory and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDelirious Milton\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), and \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of John Milton\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), which won the Christian Gauss Award for literary criticism. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Humanities Center, is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America, and delivered the Kathleen Williams Lecture on Spenser at the International Spenser Society in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43128127684723,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":81.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3be5c1df-3823-4393-b76a-8f70735a3cac.jpg?v=1749731351","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/spenserian-moments-9780674988446","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}