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SPENSER, MILTON, AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE EPIC HERO IBD

CHRISTOPHER BOND
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
04 / 2011
9781644531303
Anglès

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This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: theáFaerie Queene,áParadise Lost, andáParadise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poemsâÇÖ primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism in classical, Medieval, and Italian Renaissance literature, investigates the ways in which Spenser and Milton adapted the model, and demonstrates how the Jesus ofáParadise Regainedácan be seen as the culmination of this tradition. Challenging the opposition between 'Calvinist,' 'allegorical' Spenser and 'Arminian,' 'dramatic' Milton, this book offers a new account of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition. Arguing that Spenser influenced Milton in fundamental ways, Bond establishes a firmer structural and thematic link between the two authors, and shows how they transformed a strongly antifeminist genre by the addition of a crucial, although at times ambivalent, heroine. He also proposes solutions to some of the most difficult and controversial theological cruxes posed by these poems, in particular SpenserâÇÖs attitude to free will and MiltonâÇÖs to the Trinity. By providing a deeper understanding of the religious agendas of these epics, this book encourages a rapprochement between scholarly approaches that are too narrowly concerned with either theology or poetics.

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