The Dangerous Pleasure of Reading : The Erotics of Interpretation and Female Sexuality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Author / Editor
DeZur, Kathryn Michelle.

Title
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.