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Slavery, Allegory and Romance in Book VI of the Faerie Queene
by Kat Addis

In Book VI, canto x of The Faerie Queene, a group of brigands raid the poem’s pastoral idyll and capture Melibee, Coridon and Pastorella. At the beginning of the next canto, the brigands unsuccessfully attempt to sell their captives into slavery. This essay wonders why Spenser’s Faerie Queene enters into an apparently non-allegorical mode in order to describe a process that itself relies on the operations of allegory. Since the essay originated as a conference paper intending to provoke further thought about the term “slaves” as it appears in Spenser’s poem, it neither exhausts possible avenues of investigation nor concludes those that it opens up, but I hope that it indicates a few productive ways forward. Read more…

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    This essay wonders why Spenser’s Faerie Queene enters into an apparently non-allegorical mode in order to describe a process that itself relies on the operations of allegory.

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Kat Addis, "Slavery, Allegory and Romance in Book VI of the Faerie Queene," Spenser Review (Fall 2021).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-51/513/slavery-allegory-and-romance-in-book-vi-of-the-faerie-queene
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