Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton [Hardcover]

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.Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards Defining a Poetics of Death in Spenser and Milton; E.J.Bellamy, P.Cheney, & M.C.Schoenfeldt Spenser and the Death of the Queen; A.Hadfield Psychic Deadness in Allegory: Spenser's House of Mammon and Attacks on Linking; T.Krier Death in an Allegory; G.Teskey 'After the First Death, There is No Other': Spenser, Milton, and (Our) Death; R.Kuin and A.L.Prescott Anatomizing Death; L.Gregerson Reading Death and the Ethics of Enjoyment in Spenser and Milton; M.Grossman Sublime / Pauline: Denying Death in Paradise Lost; R.Trubowitz Imagining the Death of the King: Milton, Charles I, and Anamorphic Art; L.L. Knoppers Milton's Nationalism and the Rights of Memory; P.Stevens Afterword: Lastly Death; D.L.Miller Bibliography Index

'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

ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and visiting Professor at Columbia University, USATHERESA KRIER Teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USAGORDON TESKEY Teaches at Harvard University, USAANNE LAKE PRESCOTT Teaches at Barnard and Columbia, USAlch