Self-Interpretation in The Faerie Queene

A new reading of the allegorical nature of The Faerie Queene , offering radical new insights into its narrative and form. Recent Spenser criticism has thrown much new light, and much doubt, on the nature of The Faerie Queene 's involvement in contemporary political and religious controversies. Material to these developments has been wide recognition of the unreliability of the poem's narrating voice and its often parodic relation to generic conventions. Nonetheless, some longstanding misconcepti