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Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination
Contributors:
By (Author) Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Dewey:
821.3
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
460
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
794g
Description
Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser's universe, the author investigates the poet's theory
