MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Lowell Gallagher
Published by Stanford University Press
in 1991
ISBN: 0804718598
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ELIZABETHAN
- RELIGION
- POLITICS
- RENAISSANCE
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.
Front cover
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