God's only daughter : Spenser's Una as the invisible Church
Walls, KathrynAuthor
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Christianity and literature
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature