Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser

An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene . This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene , in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene , and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of