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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786413703321

Autore

Walls Kathryn

Titolo

God's only daughter : Spenser's Una as the invisible Church

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-78170-651-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

The Manchester Spenser God's only daughter

Disciplina

821/.3

Soggetti

Christianity and literature - History - 16th century - England

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the Incarnation, allegory, and idolatry -- The fallibility of Una -- Una redeemed -- Una as the City of God -- The City of God in history -- Canto VI : the Church's mission to the Gentiles -- Una's adiaphoric dwarf -- Una's Trinitarian dimension -- The multiplication of Una.

Sommario/riassunto

This full-length study is devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of book one of 'The Faerie Queene'. Challenging the standard identification of Spenser's Una with the post-Reformation Church in England, it argues that she stands, rather, for the community of the redeemed, the invisible Church, whose membership is known by God alone.