I remember that David Miller commented somewhere or other that he was
not interested in The Faerie Queene as a reflection of the decayed
body of what in the sixteenth century were dominant discourses.
I emailed David about where I could find such a comment—I am engaged
in one of my 1960-ish projects and would like to quote him.
David responded that he had said something on that order at different
times and referred me to the phrase, “dead body of Tudor ideology” on
pp. 13-14 in Dreams of the Burning Child.
But my memory is of a more graphic phrase, something more suggestive
of decay and perhaps even rotten.
David said it would be ok if I queried the discussion list about the matter.
Thanks,
Jim Broaddus
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