Transforming Desire

"An eminently readable and thoroughly engaging book . . . with numerous original readings that will have to be cited and confronted by future critics."--Donald Cheney, coeditor of The Spenser Encyclopedia "A very packed and original piece of work, beautifully written with both a sensitive understanding of Spenser's verse and a keen ear for the ridiculous. Her sense of Spenser's comedy is a refreshing change from the solemnity of many other critics."--Anne Lake Prescott, coeditor of The Norton Critical Edition of Spenser