Excellent topic! Paul Rovang in his book called something like_Revising
Spenser's Fierce Warres and Faithful loves_usefully shows how Sp. reacts to
Ascham's famous condemnation of Malory and other chivalric romances in the
SchoolMaster (ed. Lawrence v Ryan, Ithaca NY Cornell UP) and in Toxophilus;
so do I in my article "How Spenser Really Used Stephen Hawes," in _Unfolded
Tales: . . . Romance_Ithaca NY Cornell UP, 1990. There's a good article
defending the humanists for such c0ondemnations of chivalric romance as
these which I"ll dig out for you when I have a minute if somebody else
doesnt get there first. And finally of course this article and much else
reacts to C. S. Lewis's condemnation of the humanists for, among other
things, condemning romance in English Literature of the Sixteenth Century
(Oxford UP ca 1960).At 12:06 PM 4/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
>A student of mine is interested in writing on the relationship between Book
>I and humanist pedagogy. I am certain there is material out there, but so
>far I haven't been able to locate anything using the MLA Bibliography.
>Could someone help with some basic references?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter C. Herman
>
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