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Article: Review of Caroline McManus, Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women.(Book review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Caroline McManus. Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2002. 308pp. ISBN 0 87413 768 3.
Matthew Woodcock
University of East Anglia
matthew.woodcock@uea.ac.uk
Woodcock, Matthew. "Review of Caroline McManus, Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 13.1-6
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There have been many studies that examine the relationship between Spenser and Elizabeth I, and identify the different strategies deployed throughout The Faerie Queene in addressing the poet's ultimate implied reader. Caroline McManus' book, however, challenges such a narrow ...