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10 Sep 2017: reinforce the final lesson about the dangerous, unnatural "liberty of women." She reads Spenser as a supporter of the status quo, willing to admit exceptions to the rank of women, but

10 Sep 2017: illustrates the lessons of philoso-phJt and history.

10 Sep 2017: The final chapter proposes that court masques and civic pageants offered competing economic and literary models. ... As this chapter persuasively demonstrates, economic, political, and literary concerns continued to intersect in seventeenth-century

10 Sep 2017: That lesson is lost, however, on the speakers of the so-called secular sequences of Sidney and his followers. ... The Spenser from whom Milton most directly borrowed was a "primitIve force, an avatar of change and rough justice," whose rustic shepherds

10 Sep 2017: thesis is convincingly supported by reference to a wide variety of ancient and modern writers on economics, politics, religion, and of course literature. ... The eighteen years Spenser spent in Ireland taught him this lesson well." [See SpN, 1 (Fall 1970)

10 Sep 2017: Because temperance is a public virtue, Guyon's instruction takes the form of a history lesson which underscores the social necessity of subjecting passion to the rule of reason, private pleasure ... At Elizabeth's court, the Petrarchan language of love

10 Sep 2017: Focusing on theRomantics, Philip Connell has publishedRomanticism, Economics and theQuestion of ‘Culture’ (OUP), and SimonJarvis Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song(CUP).

10 Sep 2017: Book VI provides the true test, for pastoralism and for commentators, because readers must decide whether the so-journ in Meliboe's community represents Calidore's mistake or lesson (or both).

10 Sep 2017: and "Adam" in the dust of the E the lesson learned by each that true heroism joins contemplation and action ; the sett for each vision , upon a mountain, and the focus , ... This sonnet, Spenser ' s lesson in the steadfastness needed in courtship, takes

10 Sep 2017: The model of the judicial oration automatically put women on the defensive: "How could the sincerest advocate discuss the economic deprivations or social disadvantages of a client who stands accused of