The Dangerous Pleasure of Reading : The Erotics of Interpretation and Female Sexuality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Author / Editor
- DeZur, Kathryn Michelle.
The Dangerous Pleasure of Reading : The Erotics of Interpretation and Female Sexuality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 414A, 1999.
- Description
- Analyzes the relationships of "interpretation, authority, and female sexuality" in works by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Sidney. TC and WBPT contrast a lady seduced by her reading with a woman empowered by hers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.