Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires

"... 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

SHEILA T. CAVANAGH is Assistant Professor of English and associated faculty in Women's Studies at Emory University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Manliness of Virtue	p. 1
'Beauties Chace': Male Responses to Women in Faeryland	p. 14
Nightmares of Desire	p. 42
The Importance of Being Fairest: Kidnapping and Courtship in Faeryland	p. 75
'Fayre of face...though meane her lot': The Worth of Virtue	p. 109
'Like an Enraged Cow': Britomart among the Chased and the Unchaste	p. 139
Notes	p. 173
Works Cited	p. 205
Index	p. 220
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