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Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Jane Bellamy

    1. University of New Hampshire, USA

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  2. Patrick Cheney

    1. Pennsylvania State University, USA

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  3. Michael Schoenfeldt

    1. University of Michigan, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Toward Defining a Poetics of Death in Spenser and Milton

    • Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, Patrick Cheney, Michael Schoenfeldt
    Pages 1-27

  3. Spenser and the Death of the Queen

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 28-45

  4. Psychic Deadness in Allegory: Spenser’s House of Mammon and Attacks on Linking

    • Theresa M. Krier
    Pages 46-64

  5. Death in an Allegory

    • Gordon Teskey
    Pages 65-77

  6. ‘After the First Death, There is No Other’: Spenser, Milton, and (Our) Death

    • Roger Kuin, Anne Lake Prescott
    Pages 78-94

  7. Anatomizing Death

    • Linda Gregerson
    Pages 95-115

  8. Reading, Death and the Ethics of Enjoyment in Spenser and Milton

    • Marshall Grossman
    Pages 116-130

  9. Sublime/Pauline: Denying Death in Paradise Lost

    • Rachel Trubowitz
    Pages 131-150

  10. Imagining the Death of the King: Milton, Charles I, and Anamorphic Art

    • Laura L. Knoppers
    Pages 151-170

  11. Milton’s Nationalism and the Rights of Memory

    • Paul Stevens
    Pages 171-184

  12. Death’s Afterword

    • David Lee Miller
    Pages 185-199

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 200-216
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Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central, yet curiously understudied, preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death - in all its early modern reformations and deformations - is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton.

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'This... is a compelling and cutting-edge collection, replete with arguments that go to the heart of the cult and culture of death as depicted in the complex works of two major canonical authors, each corpus dissected with exquisite patience and expertise' - Professor Willy Maley, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New Hampshire, USA

    Elizabeth Jane Bellamy

  • Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Patrick Cheney

  • University of Michigan, USA

    Michael Schoenfeldt

About the editors

ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and visiting Professor at Columbia University, USA THERESA KRIER Teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA GORDON TESKEY Teaches at Harvard University, USA ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT Teaches at Barnard and Columbia, USA ROGER KUIN Professor of English Literature at York University in Toronto, Canada LINDA GREGORSON Teaches at the University of Michigan, USA MARSHALL GROSSMAN Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA RACHEL TRUBOWITZ Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA LAURA L. KNOPPERS Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, USA PAUL STEVENS Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada DAVID LEE MILLER Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA

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