The Poem's Two Bodies

The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene

David Lee Miller

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780691608822, 9780691067445
• eBook ISBN: 9781400859672
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological construct in the 1590 Faerie Queene provides the point of departure for David Lee Miller's richly detailed treatment of Spenser's allegory. In this major contribution to the study of Renaissance literature and ideology, Miller finds the poem organized by a fantasy of bodily wholeness that, like the marriage of Arthur and Gloriana, is both anticipated and deferred in the text.

Originally published in 1988.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. "her Imperiall Maiestie to Frame"
• 2. The Poem's Two Bodies
• 3. Arthur's Dream
• 4. Alma's Nought
• 5. The Wide Womb of the World
• Afterword
• Index