Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-40965-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 373 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in His

The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, while rapes and attempted rapes proliferate in literature. This age also sees the emergence of the woman writer, despite a sexual ideology which equates women's writing with promiscuity. Classical myths, however, associate women's story-telling with resistance to rape. This comprehensive study of rape and representation considers a wide range of texts drawn from prose fiction, poetry and drama by male and female writers, both canonical and non-canonical. Combining close attention to detail with an overview of the period, it demonstrates how the representation of gender-relations has exploited the subject of rape, and uses its understanding of this phenomenon to illuminate the issues of sexual and discursive autonomy which figure largely in women's texts of the period.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catty, J.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: WRITING RAPE The Meaning of Rape Damsels in Distress: Romance and Prose Fiction 'The Subject of His Tyrannie': Women and Shame in Elizabethan Poetry 'Some Women Live to Struggle': Rape in Renaissance Drama PART II: WRITING WOMEN 'Here the Leaf's Turn'd Down': Women Reading and Writing Rape Translation and Intervention: Jane Lumley and Mary Sidney 'Unbridled Speech': Elizabeth Cary and the Politics of Marriage 'Liberty to Say Anything': Lady Mary Wroth Conclusion Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyn Catty is currently engaged in freelance research in London.