Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-202) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / David Lee Miller -- "The hard begin": Entering the initial cantos / Judith H. Anderson -- "Add faith unto your force and be not faint": Teaching book 1 in the sophmore survey / Raymond-Jean Frontain -- The open text: A Protestant poetics of reading and teaching book 1 / Evelyn B. Tribble -- Hymen, shield, and journal: The task of interpretation / John Timpane -- "The form and gait of the body": Physical carriage, genre, and Spenserian allegory / Theresa M. Krier -- Challenging the commonplace: Teaching as conversation in Spenser's legend of temperance / John Webster "Painted forgery": Visual approaches to The Faerie Queene / Clark Hulse -- From allegory to icon: Teaching Britomart with the Elizabeth Portraits / Julia M. Walker -- Handling Elizabeth / Anne Shaver -- "Be bold, be bold...be not too bold": The pleasures and perils of teaching book 3 / Diana E. Henderson -- Finding the feminine in book 4 / Dorothy Stephens -- "That savage land": Ireland in Spenser's Legend of justice / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- "Most sacred vertue she": Reading book 5 alongside Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Justice / Edwin D. Craun -- "The triall of true curtesie": Teaching book 6 as pastoral romance / Margaret P. Hannay.
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