Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene
by Sheila T. Cavanagh
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... very readable, lucid, intriguing study... " --Spenser Newsletter ... a very thoroughgoing inventory of the cruel male fantasies and nightmares imposed on... female-gendered figures... " --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Cavanagh has managed to give an almost entirely new reading of [The Faerie Queene]; it is the first feminist rereading of the entire epic, and it reshapes the contours of the huge poem in often startling and remarkable ways." --Maureen Quilligan, University of show more Pennsylvania show lessTags
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Sheila Cavanagh is associate professor of English and associated faculty in Women's Studies and Violence Studies at Emory University.
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