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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...