Approaches to Teaching Spencer's Fairie Queene

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Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Materials
Classroom Texts	p. 3
Additional Student Readings	p. 5
Introductory Bibliography	p. 6
Aids to Teaching	p. 24
Illustrations	p. 25
Approaches
"The Hard Begin": Entering the Initial Cantos	p. 41
"Add Faith unto Your Force and Be Not Faint": Teaching Book 1 in the Sophomore Survey	p. 49
The Open Text: A Protestant Poetics of Reading and Teaching Book 1	p. 58
Hymen, Shield, and Journal: The Task of Interpretation	p. 64
"The Form and Gait of the Body": Physical Carriage, Genre, and Spenserian Allegory	p. 72
Challenging the Commonplace: Teaching as Conversation in Spenser's Legend of Temperance	p. 82
"Painted Forgery": Visual Approaches to The Faerie Queene	p. 93
From Allegory to Icon: Teaching Britomart with the Elizabeth Portraits	p. 106
Handling Elizabeth	p. 117
"Be Bold, Be Bold...Be Not Too Bold": The Pleasures and Perils of Teaching Book 3	p. 126
Finding the Feminine in Book 4	p. 134
"That Savage Land": Ireland in Spenser's Legend of Justice	p. 143
"Most Sacred Vertue She": Reading Book 5 alongside Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Justice	p. 153
Rethinking the Spenserian Gaze	p. 162
"The Triall of True Curtesie": Teaching Book 6 as Pastoral Romance	p. 172
Contributors and Survey Participants	p. 181
Works Cited	p. 183
Index	p. 203
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