TY - BOOK AU - John Rooks PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 0085-2473 TI - Love's Courtly Ethic in «The Faerie Queene» T2 - From Garden to Wilderness N2 - This book focuses on the reassertion of the value of courtly love in The Farie Queene. To this end, it offers a radical reappraisal of the Bower of Bliss, of Florimel's career and of Amoret's relationship with Busirane. The author argues that, in order to enhance the inadequate moral and spiritual vision of medieval courtly love, Spenser unites it with the medieval and Renaissance literary tradition of the wild man which provides a vigorous alternative to the vacuities of the contemporaneous pastoral with its lymphatic lovers. LA - English ER -