Dear all,
Tom's comment provides a nice transition into Book 6 and provokes me to think about the relationship between degeneration (racial, bodily, moral, religious, social) in new ways. I am now convinced that Spenser is really interesting in the process and temporality of degeneration, maybe especially in Book 5.
In moving from the concerns of Book 5 to those of Book 6, might we say that courtesy (or romance) provides solutions to degeneration? Of course, the question is what does it mean to say that that might be so.
all best,
Dennis
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