Ebook: Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero

Chapter 1. The Two Heroes of Epic; Chapter 2. The Transformation of Epic Heroism in the Italian Renaissance; Chapter 3. The Legend of Holiness and the Fall of Man; Chapter 4. The Salvation of Adam and the Redcrosse Knight; Chapter 5. Spenser's Arthur: The Education of a Christian Prince; Chapter 6. The Evolving Perfection of Milton's Christ; Epilogue: The Two Heroes of Wordsworth's Prelude;This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early modern England, the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines how Spenser and Milton adapted the pattern of dual heroism developed in classical and Medieval works. Challenging the opposition between Calvinist, allegorical Spenser and Arminian, dramatic Milton, this book offers a new understanding of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition