Spenser's ravishment: Rape and rapture in The Faerie Queene

Representations

Volumn 70, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-26

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EID: 61949245777     PISSN: 07346018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rep.2000.70.1.01p00672     Document Type: Review

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