Manchester Spenser: Comic Spenser

Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene

Manchester Spenser: Comic Spenser
Victoria Coldham-Fussell
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Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 256pg
18 Oct 2022 UK
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9781526167040
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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria Coldham-Fussell demonstrates that humour goes to the heart of Spenser' s moral and doctrinal preoccupations. She charts amusing rifts between the poem' s ambitious and idealising postures and its Protestant vision of corruptible human nature; yet contends that Spenserian humour is an expression of tolerance and faith as well as an instrument of satire. This study' s application of modern comic theory to a key text of the English Renaissance and its detailed survey of the comic influences that shaped Spenser' s literary milieu will be indispensable to teachers of the Renaissance period, to students of comic literature, and to established Spenserians.

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' Laudably clear and jargon-free and including extensive notes, Comic Spenser will be useful for nonspecialists, and it will open intriguing avenues of interpretation for more advanced students. Coldham-Fussell provides extensive notes. ' CHOICE (Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. ) -- .
Victoria Coldham-Fussell is a freelance writer and independent scholar
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526167040
Published: 18 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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