Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of WomenUniversity of Delaware Press, 2002 - 308 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Lady Knights and Reading | 104 |
Reading Modesty | 149 |
Copyright | |
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Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts Mary Ellen Lamb,Karen Bamford Previsualització limitada - 2008 |
Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts Mary Ellen Lamb,Karen Bamford Visualització de fragments - 2008 |