{"product_id":"the-reformation-of-the-subject-spenser-milton-and-the-english-protestant-epic-paperback-9780521034906","title":"The Reformation of the Subject; Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521034906","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reformation of the Subject\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, as defining monuments of English epic in an iconoclastic age.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda Gregerson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521034906, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 December 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.445 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a worthy 1990s response to the last two English poetic epics.\"   Diane Parkin-Speer, Sixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Reformation of the Subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the English Protestant epic. In lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, Linda Gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. She reminds us that Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of waylaying the human imagination. Through a series of detailed readings, Gregerson examines the different strategies adopted by Spenser and Milton as they sought to distinguish their poems from idols yet preserve the shaping power that iconoclasts have long attributed to icons. Tracing the transformation of the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject, Gregerson thus provides an illuminating contribution to our understanding of the ways in which subjectivities are historically produced.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Emerging likeness: Spenser's mirror sequence of love\u003cbr\u003e 2. The closed image\u003cbr\u003e 3. Narcissus interrupted: specularity and the subject of the Tudor state\u003cbr\u003e 4. The mirror of romance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Fault lines: Milton's mirror of desire\u003cbr\u003e 6. Words made visible: the embodied rhetoric of Satan, Sin and Death\u003cbr\u003e 7. Divine similitude: language in exile\u003cbr\u003e List of works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006235889944,"sku":"9780521034906","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521034906i_9f10482b-93fd-42a1-b1ff-e94383eac7b9.jpg?v=1694968273","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-reformation-of-the-subject-spenser-milton-and-the-english-protestant-epic-paperback-9780521034906","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}