Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton

ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and visiting Professor at Columbia University, USATHERESA KRIER Teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USAGORDON TESKEY Teaches at Harvard University, USAANNE LAKE PRESCOTT Teaches at Barnard and Columbia, USAROGER KUIN Professor of English Literature at York University in Toronto, CanadaLINDA GREGORSON Teaches at the University of Michigan, USAMARSHALL GROSSMAN Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USARACHEL TRUBOWITZ Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USALAURA L. KNOPPERS Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, USAPAUL STEVENS Professor of English at Queen's University, CanadaDAVID LEE MILLER Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards Defining a Poetics of Death in Spenser and Milton; E.J.Bellamy, P.Cheney, & M.C.Schoenfeldt Spenser and the Death of the Queen; A.Hadfield Psychic Deadness in Allegory: Spenser's House of Mammon and Attacks on Linking; T.Krier Death in an Allegory; G.Teskey 'After the First Death, There is No Other': Spenser, Milton, and (Our) Death; R.Kuin and A.L.Prescott Anatomizing Death; L.Gregerson Reading Death and the Ethics of Enjoyment in Spenser and Milton; M.Grossman Sublime / Pauline: Denying Death in Paradise Lost; R.Trubowitz Imagining the Death of the King: Milton, Charles I, and Anamorphic Art; L.L. Knoppers Milton's Nationalism and the Rights of Memory; P.Stevens Afterword: Lastly Death; D.L.Miller Bibliography Index

'This... is a compelling and cutting-edge collection, replete with arguments that go to the heart of the cult and culture of death as depicted in the complex works of two major canonical authors, each corpus dissected with exquisite patience and expertise' - Professor Willy Maley, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow