Allegory and epic in English Renaissance literature: heroic form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton

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Renaissance Literature and Culture Medieval Literature and History Early Modern Spanish Literature

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List of illustrations Note on translations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The formalization of allegory in Heroic poetry 2. Allegory and the metamorphoses of Heroic form 3. Reconfiguring the Epic repertoire 4. Arcadian allegorical epic 5. Sidneian transformations of Heroic poetry 6. Arthurian configurations: Spenser's continued Heroic allegorism 7. Spenser's Heroic allegory and the politics of ennobled virtue 8. 'Union or communion deified': universal analogies of Milton's pattern-hero 9. 'So God with man unites': Heroic community in one greater man 10. 'In mysterious terms judged best': Paradise Lost and allegorical poetics.

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