The Faerie Queene as children's literature: Victorian and Edwardian retellings in words and pictures

"Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. The poem was later made over as children's literature, retold in lavish volumes and schoolbooks and...

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1. Verfasser: Richmond, Velma Bourgeois 1931- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2016]
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. The poem was later made over as children's literature, retold in lavish volumes and schoolbooks and appreciated in pedagogical studies and literary histories"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-266) and index
Beschreibung:vii, 275 pages illustrations 23 cm