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MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE

by Lowell Gallagher

Published by Stanford University Press. 1st. 1991

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.

Some mottling to boards. Text block slightly grubby, contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and some foxing to verso.

ISBN: 0804718598
Stock no. 1819661

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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

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