Format:
Online-Ressource (XXI, 284 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230247734
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1283028638
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9780333740286
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9781283028639
Series Statement:
Early modern literature in history
Content:
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 fro
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Revision of the author's thesis
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Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Part I: Writing Rape ; 1. The Meanings of Rape; 2. Damsels in Distress: Romance and Prose Fiction; 3. 'The subiect of his tyrannie': Women and Shame in Elizabethan Poetry ; 4. 'Some women love to struggle': Rape in Renaissance Drama ; Part II: Writing Women ; 5. 'Here the leaf's turn'd down': Women Reading and Writing Rape; 6. Translation and Intervention: Jane Lumley and Mary Sidney ; 7. 'Vnbridled Speech': Elizabeth Cary and the Politics of Marriage
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8. 'Liberty to say anything': Lady Mary WrothConclusion; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9780230309074
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Catty, Jocelyn, 1971 - Writing rape, writing women in early modern England Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 9780333740286
Additional Edition:
0230247733
Additional Edition:
9780230247734
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Frauenliteratur
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Vergewaltigung
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Geschichte 1570-1700
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