Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self

Framsida
University of Delaware Press, 1998 - 236 sidor
What common ground in the imaginations of these three very different writers produces such paradigms of disempowerment? The author has foregrounded three attempts both to construct and to control the female self; the common ground of the transformative mirror will tell the reader something about the poetic imaginations of the three canonical authors and provide insight into the problems of gender and power and representation in the English Renaissance.
 

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the construction and recognition of a female self
19
the chiasmus of perception
45
Elizabeth is Britomart is Elizabeth this sex which is not won
69
Cleopatra the tain of the mirror
117
Eve the first reflection
158
the mirrors of Medusa
188
Notes
196
Bibliography
224
Index
233
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