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Article: Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Caroline McManus. Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women.
Newark: University of Delaware Press/London AUP, 2002. 308 pp. index. bibl. $52.50. ISBN: 0-87413-768-3.
Caroline McManus offers a useful addition to the small but significant collection of books applying the evolving study of women in the Renaissance specifically to The Faerie Queene. As her title suggests, she focuses both on the way Spenser's female audience may have read the book differently from their male counterparts and on the way the poem itself "reads" women and their role in Elizabethan culture. One of McManus's major claims is that previous studies of The Faerie Queene have ...