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Indiana University Press Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene 1994 Edition by Sheila T. Cavanagh
" . . . 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 Table of contents : - AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Manliness of Virtue1. Beauties Chace: Male Responses to Women in Faeryland2. Nightmares of Desire3. The Importance of Being Fairest: Kidnapping and Courtship in Faeryland4. Fayre of face...though meane her lot: The Worth of Virtue5. Like an Enraged Cow: Britomart among the Chased and the unchasteNotesWorks Cited Index