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MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE

Written by Lowell Gallagher
Published by Stanford University Press in 1991
ISBN: 0804718598

MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Lowell Gallagher.
Stock no. 1819661
1st. 1991. Hardback. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Examining the central role of casuistry in Elizabethan religions, political, and literary culture. Black cloth boards, red title to spine. Colour frontis. ISBN: 0804718598. Some mottling to boards. Text block slightly grubby, contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and some foxing to verso.

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Cover of MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE by Lowell Gallagher

Contents

  • INTRODUCTION Casuistry in the Elizabethan Church-State; or, The Ambiguities of Ideological Colonization
  • PART I
  • Victims of Conscience In and Around Elizabeth's Court
  • ONE
  • The Text of Casuistry in Elizabeth's Discourse of Power: Misreading the Conscience of the Queen
  • TWO
  • The Foro Interno Outside Gloriana's Court: Hones Dissimulations in the Commonwealth
  • THREE
  • Reading and Misreading the Body Politic: The Conscience of Anthony Tyrrell, Spy and Apostate
  • PART II
  • The Discourse of Conscience in the Elizabethan Canon
  • FOUR
  • The "Siena Sieve" Portrait and Book 5 of The Faerie Queene: Vanishing Points, Aphasiac Readers, and the Rhetoric of the Lax Conscience
  • FIVE
  • "Tempering by just proportions good venims from evill": The Secret Pharmacy of Equity in Spenser's Narrative
  • SIX
  • Self-Cancelling Cases of Conscience: Britomart, Artegall, and the Transgressive Simile
  • SEVEN
  • On Not Representing the Queen's "Answer Answerlesse": The Politics of Dissimulation and Allegory in the Trial of Duessa
  • ENVOY
  • Tropes of Conscience: Gyge's Ring, Spenser's 'Legend of Justice', and Novelistic Discourse.
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index