Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the Incarnation, allegory, and idolatry -- The fallibility of Una -- Una redeemed -- Una as the City of God -- The City of God in history -- Canto VI : the Church's mission to the Gentiles -- Una's adiaphoric dwarf -- Una's Trinitarian dimension -- The multiplication of Una.
Summary:
Challenging the standard identification of Una, the beleaguered heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene, with the post-Reformation Church in England, arguing that she stands for the entire community of the redeemed, whose membership is known only to God.
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