Spenser’s Heavenly Elizabeth

lt;b>Donald Stump is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, USA. His publications include Elizabeth I and Her Age and Elizabeth I and the 'Sovereign Arts,' along with numerous articles on Renaissance literature and the Spenser and Sidney World Bibliographies. With Carole Levin, he founded the Queen Elizabeth I Society.

I. Spenser's Method and Artistry.- 1. Introduction to Spenser's Art of Royal Encomium.- 2. Spenser, Elizabeth, and the Problem of Flattery.- 3. Gloriana, Biblical Typology, and Moral Transfiguration.- II. Spenser's Elizabeth.- 4. Una and the English Reformation.- 5. The Maturation of the Queen.- 6. The Queen in Her Glory.- III. The Faerie Queene in Context.- 7. Una, Mercilla, and the Elizabethan Apocalypse.- 8. Sidney, Spenser, and the Queen.

"Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth will be of interest to all those who see Spenser's epic poem as preoccupied primarily with royalty and providential history. ... His delicate handling of the poetry achieves a fine balance between textuality and topicality. ... Through his editorial and bibliographical energies he has been an enabler of decisive work on the image of Elizabeth. This magisterial monograph affords him the perfect opportunity to demonstrate his own unsurpassed expertise." (Willy Maley, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74 (3), 2021)
"Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth is a tour de force and a gift to the Renaissance scholarly community. It provides a rich and detailed analysis of Spenser's magnum opus while at the same time, providing a rich historical narrative of the English Reformation(s)." (Jesse Russell, Christianity & Literature, Vol. 70 (3), September, 2021)