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“In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article focuses on selected narratives of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene with particular attention to the contexts of illness, healing and convalescence. Discussion explores how Spenser establishes a clear narrative rhythm in his epic poem so that his various protagonists seek refuges for medical and therapeutic intervention at regular points in each of the designated “books” of the work. Of particular interest here are the ways in which Spenser reinterprets Catholic discourses of spiritual failure and healing for a Protestant audience in sixteenth-century England.

Source: Études Épistémè

DOI: 10.4000/13juq

Author: Andrew Hiscock

Institutions: Bangor University, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance l'Age Classique et les Lumières

Language: English

Topic: Renaissance Literature and Culture

Subfield: Classics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4408725783

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