Medusa's Mirrors
Author: Julia M. Walker
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780874136258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of selfhood in Renaissance texts constitutes a scholarly and critical debate of almost unmanageable proportions. The author of this work begins by questioning the strategies with which male writers depict powerful women. Although Spenser's Britomart, Shakespeare's Cleopatra, and Milton's Eve figure selfhood very differently and to very different ends, they do have two significant elements in common: mirrors and transformations that diminish the power of the female self.