Transforming Desire - Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene

"An eminently readable and thoroughly engaging book . . . with numerous original readings that will have to be cited and confronted by future critics."—Donald Cheney, coeditor of The Spenser Encyclopedia

 

"A very packed and original piece of work, beautifully written with both a sensitive understanding of Spenser's verse and a keen ear for the ridiculous. Her sense of Spenser's comedy is a refreshing change from the solemnity of many other critics."—Anne Lake Prescott, coeditor of The Norton Critical Edition of Spenser

About the author

Lauren Silberman is a Professor of English at Baruch College and teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance English, early women writers, classical literature and satire from Aesop through South Park.  Her publications include Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene, Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (co-edited with Patrick Cheney) and articles on Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and L. Frank Baum

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Silberman, Silberman Lauren
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2024
• EAN: 9780520415454
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41545-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general