Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women

Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women

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Publisher's Synopsis

Linking 'The Faerie Queen' with early modern conduct manuals, romances, dedicatory epistles, and devotional literature, McManus examines the poem's depiction of women's interpretative strategies and argues that female readers were expected to exercise considerable autonomy as they endorsed, adapted, or resisted the texts that sought to fashion them as "chaste, silent and obedient."

Book information

ISBN: 9780874137682
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.3
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 308
Weight: 623g
Height: 241mm
Width: 171mm
Spine width: 25mm