The Old Woman in the Cave of Lust: Edmund Spenser's Silenced Feminine Voices in The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser’s epic Arthurian-centric poem The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) is permeated by fairy tales and old wives’ tales, but the very presence of the tales and their tellers is problematic, as these feminine voices are often included only to be silenced (Miller 6). Spenser’s anxiety of female v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colleen E. Kennedy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2009-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/627