Spenser's Underworld in the 1590 Faerie QueeneThis work offers updated readings of some familiar Spenserian texts and a new way of conceiving the unity of the 1590 Faerie Queene. It brings a range of learning to bear, drawing from Freudian and Jungean psychology, scripture, and Greek and Roman mythology. |
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Theseus as Harrower of Hell in Book I | 29 |
Prince Arthur and Christs Descent into Hell | 49 |
Merlins Ambiguous Hell Power in Book III | 85 |
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A. C. Hamilton Acrasia Aeneas Aeneid allegory analogy Archimago Ariadne Arthur Atkinson Becon Book Bower of Bliss Britomart brothels Busirane Canto 12 Canto 9 Chapter Christ Christ's descent Christian classical continence Coryate Coryate's courtesan Cretan labyrinth damnation death demonic descent into hell desire Despaire episode Despaire's discord divine Duessa dungeon dying Edmund Spenser Elizabethan encounter English epic error evil Faerie Queene Garden of Adonis grace Guyon harrowing of hell House of Holiness House of Pride human infernal John journey knight labyrinth London lust Mammon Mammon's cave maze Medieval melancholy Merlin Merlin's cave Minotaur moriendi tradition moriens nature Nohrnberg Orgoglio parallels Phaedria Philology Pirithous poem Princeton University Press prophecy Prostitution psychological psychomachia realm Redcrosse Redcrosse knight's Redcrosse's Renaissance sexual Shakespeare's sickness soul Spenser Encyclopedia spiritual stanza Studies suggests temperance temptation Theology Theseus Theseus myth Theseus's Thomas Thomas Becon Toronto trans underworld Virgil virtue vnto Weatherby Yale University Press York