Wounding the Female Body Politic: Reading the 1580s in The Faerie Queene

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Abstract: This thesis explores how Edmund Spenser's experience of the 1580s, in conjunction with the events of Queen Elizabeth's reign, shaped his epic The Faerie Queene. In particular, the thesis explores the descriptive detail of wounds in the epic and explores how they reveal Spenser's anxiety about Elizabeth's female body politic.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 14, 2014

Author	Edwards, Halle
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of English
Primary advisor	Greene, Roland
Advisor	Lunsford, Andrea

Subject	Department of English
Subject	The Faerie Queene
Subject	Edmund Spenser
Subject	Queen Elizabeth
Subject	sixteenth century literature
Subject	sixteenth century history
Subject	Ireland
Subject	wounds
Subject	injury
Subject	body politic
Subject	gender
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nm527hm3485

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Preferred Citation: Edwards, Halle and Greene, Roland and Lunsford, Andrea. (2014). Wounding the Female Body Politic: Reading the 1580s in The Faerie Queene. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nm527hm3485

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