Preface to the Series | |
Preface to the Volume | |
Materials | |
Classroom Texts | p. 3 |
Additional Student Readings | p. 5 |
Introductory Bibliography | p. 6 |
Aids to Teaching | p. 24 |
Illustrations | p. 25 |
Approaches | |
"The Hard Begin": Entering the Initial Cantos | p. 41 |
"Add Faith unto Your Force and Be Not Faint": Teaching Book 1 in the Sophomore Survey | p. 49 |
The Open Text: A Protestant Poetics of Reading and Teaching Book 1 | p. 58 |
Hymen, Shield, and Journal: The Task of Interpretation | p. 64 |
"The Form and Gait of the Body": Physical Carriage, Genre, and Spenserian Allegory | p. 72 |
Challenging the Commonplace: Teaching as Conversation in Spenser's Legend of Temperance | p. 82 |
"Painted Forgery": Visual Approaches to The Faerie Queene | p. 93 |
From Allegory to Icon: Teaching Britomart with the Elizabeth Portraits | p. 106 |
Handling Elizabeth | p. 117 |
"Be Bold, Be Bold...Be Not Too Bold": The Pleasures and Perils of Teaching Book 3 | p. 126 |
Finding the Feminine in Book 4 | p. 134 |
"That Savage Land": Ireland in Spenser's Legend of Justice | p. 143 |
"Most Sacred Vertue She": Reading Book 5 alongside Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Justice | p. 153 |
Rethinking the Spenserian Gaze | p. 162 |
"The Triall of True Curtesie": Teaching Book 6 as Pastoral Romance | p. 172 |
Contributors and Survey Participants | p. 181 |
Works Cited | p. 183 |
Index | p. 203 |
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