Spenser's allegory : the anatomy of imagination /

Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacCaffrey, Isabel G. (Isabel Gamble), 1924-1978 (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press 1976.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x0w25
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Allegory and Imagination
  • II. Re-Mythologizing: Book I as Context
  • III. "Lovers Deare Debates": The Middle Books
  • IV. Book VI: The Paradise Within
  • Conclusion: The Promised End in Mutabilitie
  • Index
  • Backmatter