“In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing

This article focuses on selected narratives of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene with particular attention to the contexts of illness, healing and convalescence. Discussion explores how Spenser establishes a clear narrative rhythm in his epic poem so that his various protagonists seek refuges for medical...

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Main Author: Andrew Hiscock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2025-03-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/20217
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description This article focuses on selected narratives of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene with particular attention to the contexts of illness, healing and convalescence. Discussion explores how Spenser establishes a clear narrative rhythm in his epic poem so that his various protagonists seek refuges for medical and therapeutic intervention at regular points in each of the designated “books” of the work. Of particular interest here are the ways in which Spenser reinterprets Catholic discourses of spiritual failure and healing for a Protestant audience in sixteenth-century England.
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“In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
Etudes Epistémè
Spenser
Faerie Queene
healing
spiritual failure
convalescence
title “In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
title_full “In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
title_fullStr “In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
title_full_unstemmed “In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
title_short “In wounded hart”: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Emergency of Healing
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Faerie Queene
healing
spiritual failure
convalescence
url https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/20217
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