Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires

<p> . . . very readable lucid intriguing study . . . --Spenser Newsletter<br /><br /> . . . a very thoroughgoing inventory of the cruel male fantasies and nightmares imposed on . . . female-gendered figures . . . --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<br /><br />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</p>