Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires

Download or read book Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires written by Sheila T. Cavanagh and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . 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 Pennsylvania