Session Details

Friday, 30 December

766. Spenserian Agents: Men, Women, and Catholics

1:45–3:00 p.m., Harding, Marriott

Program arranged by the International Spenser Society

Presiding: Joseph Foster Loewenstein, Washington Univ.

1. “The Limits of Pity: Female Heroism in Spenser’s Garden of Adonis,” Kathryn Sydney Evans, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2. “Catholics, Classics, and the Elizabethan Polity: The Real Context for Spenser,” Nigel S. Smith, Princeton Univ.

3. “Narratological Free Will: Scudamore and the Temple of Venus,” Andrea Walkden, Yale Univ.

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