Spenser's Faerie queene and the reading of women
By: Caroline McManus.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses; Univ of Delaware Pr
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 16th century; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century; Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism; Women -- England -- Intellectual life; Knights and knighthood in literature; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Description: Publisher's description: Linking The Faerie Queene with early modern conduct manuals, romances, dedicatory epistles, and devotional literature, McManus examines the poem's depiction of women's interpretive 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-302) and index.