Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene

This is the first full-length study to be devoted to the humour of The Faerie Queene. Once...
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Author: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
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Language: English
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Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene by Coldham-Fussell, Victoria

Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene

€66,14

Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene

€66,14
Author: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This is the first full-length study to be devoted to the humour of The Faerie Queene. Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But Victoria Coldham-Fussell argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and misunderstood. Challenging the bias behind this neglect, she shows that humour, far from being peripheral or superficial, goes to the heart of Spenser's moral and doctrinal preoccupations. Comic Spenser charts rifts between The Faerie Queene's ambitious and idealising postures and its Protestant vision of corruptible human nature. Figures to be comically 'undone' include the hero, the chivalric lover, the virgin, and the ideal monarch - as well as Spenser's own epic-poet persona. Bold reinterpretations of key episodes show Red Crosse, Arthur, Britomart, and Belphoebe in all-too-human lights. Yet bathos has a positive significance in Christian theology, and Spenserian humour proves to be an expression of tolerance and faith as well as an instrument of satire. On this basis, Coldham-Fussell contends that the alliance of humour and allegory in The Faerie Queene strongly affirms the value of the creative and 'errant' imagination.


This revisionary study will be of interest to established Spenserians and to students for whom The Faerie Queene is a set text. Its two introductory chapters (the first of which provides an overview of modern comic theory, and the second of which surveys the comic literary culture of the sixteenth century) will also prove useful for students of comic literature and for teachers of the Renaissance period.



Author: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781526167040

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