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Between courtesy and constancy : The Faerie Queene, books 6 and 7

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08/09/2016
Author
Davis, Alex
Keywords
Edmund Spenser
Stoicism
Inheritance
The Faerie Queene
PR English literature
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Matthew Lownes’s 1609 edition of The Faerie Queene claims that the Mutabilitie Cantos, printed for the very first time, “appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the FAERIE QVEENE, VNDER THE LEGEND OF Constancie.” This essay reads the figure of Meliboe, in book 5 of Spenser’s poem, as a spokesperson for the constant, Neostoic world-view, and his debate with Calidore as an exploration of what might be at stake in the transition between courtesy and constancy. It looks at the associations of constancy in late sixteenth-century culture. Finally, it offers a reading of The Mutabilitie Cantos as attempting to reconstitute the features of a constant virtue, in part through a revision of Stoic and Nestoic discourses of property and possession.
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Davis , A 2016 , ' Between courtesy and constancy : The Faerie Queene , books 6 and 7 ' , English Literary History , vol. 83 , no. 3 , pp. 655-679 . https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2016.0025
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English Literary History
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2016.0025
ISSN
0013-8304
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2016.0025
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9490

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