Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Dedication

pp viii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Part I - Space and Materiality in the Realm of Allegorical Romance

pp 1-2

1 - Accounting for the Material in Spenser's Allegory

pp 3-21

2 - Space, Place, and Location: Inside and Outside the Poem

pp 22-44

Part II - Architectural Space and the Status of the Object in The Faerie Queene

pp 45-46

3 - Galleries: Space, Mythography, and the Object

pp 47-72

4 - Royal Chambers: Space and Presence

pp 73-94

Part III - Beleaguered Spaces

pp 95-96

5 - ‘Goodly Workemanship’: Fortifications and the Body

pp 97-127

6 - Defended Spaces, Fast Spaces, Proper Spaces

pp 128-148

7 - The Stones of Kilcolman: Spenserian Biography, the Ruin, and the Material Fragment

pp 149-164

Part IV - The Physical and Allegorized Landscape

pp 165-166

8 - Deforestation and the Spenserian Wood

pp 167-194

9 - The Houses of the Poor

pp 195-219

Conclusion

pp 220-222

Bibliography

pp 223-246

Index

pp 247-256

Studies in Renaissance Literature

pp 257-258