Spenser's Supreme Fiction : Platonic Natural History and the Faerie Queene.
In Spenser's Supreme Fiction, Jon A. Quitslund offers a rich analysis of The Faerie Queene and of several texts contributing to the revival of Platonism stimulated by Marsilio Ficino's labours as a translator and interpreter of Plato and the ancient Neoplatonists. To the old issue of the s...
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University of Toronto Press
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE MAKER'S MIND
- 1 The Author in 1580 and 1590
- The Subject of Gender
- The Poet's Career in 1580 and 1590
- Dialogical Relations between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser
- 2 The World and the Book
- Nature and Myth
- 'The whole circle or compasse of Learning'
- The Poem as Heterocosm
- 'Deepe within the mynd'
- 3 The Poet as Magus and Viator
- Isomorphism of the Soul and the World
- Socratic and Esoteric Humanism
- Poetic and Philosophical Discourses
- Spenser's Poetry and Ficinian Platonism
- 4 Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid
- The Organic Soul or Spiritus
- Landino's Commentary on the Aeneid
- English Protestant Responses to Platonic Natural Philosophy
- PART TWO: 'WITHIN THIS WIDE GREAT VNIUERSE'
- 5 Nature in The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Phenomena
- Hierarchical and Dynamic Principles
- Night and Day
- Destiny, Necessity, Providence
- Fate and Fortune
- Strife and Love
- The Four Elements
- Sprights and Spirits
- Decay
- 6 Reading the Garden of Adonis Canto
- Sources of the Source
- Reading the Garden as a Woman
- Courtly and Erudite Trattati d'Amore
- Formal Symmetries in the Garden Canto
- The Ontological Status of the Garden
- Gender Roles and Family Life in the Garden
- 'In the thickest couert of that shade'
- The Work of Mourning
- 7 The Platonic Program of the Garden Canto
- Leone Ebreo's Exposition of Two Myths in The Symposium
- Louis Le Roy's Le Sympose de Platon
- Marsilio Ficino's De Amore
- Aristophanes' Myth and the Daughters of Chrysogone
- Daemonic Love in the Gardens of Jupiter and Adonis
- 8 The Faerie Queene in 1596 and 1609
- The Garden Remembered
- Scudamour, Florimell, and the Scope of Friendship
- Mutabilitie and the End of Nature
- Conclusion
- Notes.
- Works Cited
- General Index
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- Index of Names and Places in The Faerie Queene
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