Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth Providential History in The Faerie Queene /

• Main Author: Stump, Donald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Literature, Modern.; Women.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Women's Studies.; History of Early Modern Europe.

This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser's epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I's life. By narrating the loves and wars of an A...