Title: Spenser's Faerie queene and the reading of women
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."
Subjects: Authors and readers, Books and reading, English Epic poetry, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Knights and knighthood in literature, Women, Women and literature, Spenser, edmund, 1552?-1599, Books and reading, history, Epic poetry, history and criticism
Places: England
People: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)
Time periods: 16th century