Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene

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… 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