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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 237–255.
Published: 01 September 1979
...John C. Bean Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 MAKING THE DAIMONIC PERSONAL BRITOMART AND LOVE’S ASSAULT IN THE FAERIE QUEENE By JOHK C. BEAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 426–445.
Published: 01 December 1967
...Richard A. Lanham Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 THE LITERAL BRITOMART By RICHARDA. LANHAM Appearances to the contrary, Britomart is not the kind of girl who chases after men, but then she is not that other domestic kind...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 185–192.
Published: 01 June 1940
... of Spenser’s debt, in Book 111, cantos xi and xii, to the first (1578) and second (1585) parts of the Mirrour. I1 In Bk. 111, cantos xi-xii, Britomart comes upon Scudamore, who lies on the ground (xi, 7-8) grieving at the loss of his lady (9-1 1). Britomart...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... Book 3, Spenser’s Legend of Chastity, has two Circe-figures, one at the beginning and one at the end. The first, Malecasta, lives in a castle that resembles the Bower of Bliss. The hero of the legend, Britomart, is herself a woman and overcomes with a minimum of fuss, by riding away (Watkins 1995...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 465–473.
Published: 01 September 1941
... of his powre, His biting sword, and his devouring speare, Which have endured many a dreadfull stowre,- 111.2.6.3. Britomart tells the Red Crosse Knight: I haue been trained vp in warlike stowre, To tossen speare and shield, and to affrap...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 1947
... of the Fairy Queen, but has sought vainly for her realm. Yet with Guyon he is in Fairy Land all the time. Guyon visits the Celtic Otherworld three times : [to Phaedria’s isle ; to Mannon’s cave ; to Acrasia’s bower]. . . . On the other hand, Britomart says that she has come from her native soil...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 1946
... of Britomart in Book Three is entirely different. Her deviations from complete veracity are undoubtedly willful, but inasmuch as they are obviously not intended to work harm to anyone, they reveal nothing more serious than a certain feminine capriciousness that may even be commended on the ground...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (4): 645–648.
Published: 01 December 1996
..., intricate, yet delightful approach to his creation of a heroic exemplar who, Watkins daringly sug- gests, surpasses even Aeneas ( 174): the Britomart of The Faerie Qwene, book 3. Regal in her addictive passion, Britomart is heir to Dido as well as to Aeneas. Even without the unlucky and almost...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (3): 203–227.
Published: 01 September 1982
... anticipates several later recurrences of this trium- phal posture in The Faerie Queene, including Britomart’s civilizing mastery of the crocodile at Isis Church, Mercilla’s mastery of the lion beneath her throne, and the triumph of their countertype, Lucifera, over the dragon at her feet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 300–310.
Published: 01 December 1955
..., Temperance, Chastity, Justice) and creating its imagistic equivalent, usually a fictional personage (Red Cross, Guyon, Britomart, Artegall) whom he sets in motion in his narrative. Unlike Shakespeare’s, Spenser’s narrative itself is not rich in decorative metaphors ; his poetic texture, like his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 149–154.
Published: 01 June 1944
... “Brydale Day” Book V, therefore, belongs to Elizabeth particularly in her person as a queen, for her “great iustice [is] praysed ouer all.”15 The warlike virgin Britomart, who represents Elizabeth, sees in the magic mirror her destined lover, Artegall, the Knight of Justice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 354–364.
Published: 01 December 1963
... to the Bower, where he resists the blandishments of Acrasia, destroys her Bower, and restores to their former shapes the victims of her lust (II.xii.55-87). In Book I11 the Redcross Knight and Britomart enter the Castle Joyous which is presided over by Malecasta, “the Lady of Delight...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 306–309.
Published: 01 September 1977
... hand; actively defen- sive and invulnerably chaste on the other” (p. 289). She ought not to have all but ignored Book 5, if only because Britomart’s dream in the Temple of Isis is central to any discussion of the allegorist’s imagination and, with Book 2, severely challenges her approach...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 March 1964
... of the minor poems. In his commentary on The Faerie Queene, he is, like Hough, best on those episodes centered on the tangled relationships of Amoret, Scudamour, Britomart, and Busirane. Perhaps he is most to be praised for his chapter on Book V, which goes a long way toward opening up an extremely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 March 1951
... left by Castiglione. Edmund Spen- ser offers six chief knights as models of Renaissance courtliness (Red Cross Knight, Guyon, Britomart, Marinell, Artegall, Calidore) and specifically avows that he had chosen the Ethics of Aristotle for his outline of virtues to be extolled. Marlowe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 311–324.
Published: 01 December 1955
...- ture of the ideal man perfected in the Aristotelian virtues: the faery knight was the complete Renaissance gentleman ; Arthur was the symbol of magnificence, the virtue which, to Spenser, contained all the others; Britomart was the ideal woman, perfected in holiness and temperance. Hooker...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (3): 345–362.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Queen and that he associates feminine endings with emasculation and with different forms of female rulership (motherly for Britomart, rebellious for Radigund and Muta- bilitie).5 Quilligan discusses 18 cases, but even that is only a fraction: in the whole Faerie Queene there are at least 164...