Representing Rape In The English Early Modern Period
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Representing Rape In The English Early Modern Period
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Author : Barbara Joan Baines
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Representing Rape In The English Early Modern Period written by Barbara Joan Baines and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the impossibilities of adequately representing rape from the victim's perspective in the early modern period. It considers a variety of materials - verse narratives, plays, paintings and prints -showing how genre and form inflect the representation without altering the bias pattern.
Representing Rape In Medieval And Early Modern Literature
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Author : C. Rose
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Representing Rape In Medieval And Early Modern Literature written by C. Rose and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. The volume has two purposes: first, to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate and have generated for readers - especially for the female reader- and second, to explore what these representations tell us about social formations governing the relationships between men and women. More particularly, Rose and Robertson are interested in how representations of rape manifest a given culture's understanding of the female subject in society.
Rape In Early Modern England
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Author : Helen Barker
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-02
Rape In Early Modern England written by Helen Barker and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with History categories.
This book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England. It takes the premise that over the past four decades misunderstandings about rape law, and misreadings of rape statutes from medieval to Elizabethan times, have become widely cited in criticism. Helen Barker identifies how this has arisen, and discusses the main sources of confusion – including indissoluble issues around the word ‘ravishment’. Rape law historically encompassed elopement and abduction; this book offers a succinct overview of the law, and draws attention to the wider social context other than gender opposition in which it is often presented. In addition, critics have been tempted to rely on the ostensibly authoritative seventeenth-century treatise, The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, as a legal source. By examining the context of its publication, this book suggests that the treatise is unreliable and can mislead the unwary.
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England
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Author : J. Catty
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-08
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England written by J. Catty and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Semiotics Of Rape In Renaissance English Literature
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Author : Lee A. Ritscher
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
The Semiotics Of Rape In Renaissance English Literature written by Lee A. Ritscher and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature traces the development of laws regarding rape in pre- and early modern England, including Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Tudor changes to the legal code and how legal code, societal expectations of virtuous women, and medical theory interact to coerce silence from early modern rape victims. These forces come to play in the literary texts under examination, including poetry from Sir Philip Sidney and George Gascoigne and drama by William Shakespeare and Thomas Heywood. By examining the narratorial slippage, the gaps between the original Roman myth and the Elizabethan retellings of the narrative, this study seeks to tease out the sites of particularly English forms of misogyny and discover how this misogyny affects all women, not just those who are rape victims.
Rape And The Rise Of The Author
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Author : Amy Greenstadt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Rape And The Rise Of The Author written by Amy Greenstadt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Amy Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention that emerged during the English Renaissance. Analyzing works by Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare and Cavendish, Greenstadt shows how the figure of 'The Author' - and by extension ideas of the modern individual--derived from a paradigm of female virtue and vulnerability. This volume supplements the growing body of studies that address the relationship between early modern textual representation and notions of gender and sexuality; it also adds a new dimension in considering the wider origins of modern concepts of selfhood and individual rights.
Early Modern Trauma
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Author : Erin Peters
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-08
Early Modern Trauma written by Erin Peters and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with History categories.
This edited collection explores what trauma—seen through an analytical lens—can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.
Dying To Be English
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Author : Kelly McGuire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Dying To Be English written by Kelly McGuire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England
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Author : Jocelyn Catty
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1999
Writing Rape Writing Women In Early Modern England written by Jocelyn Catty and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This comprehensive study covers a wide range of texts drawn from fiction, poetry and drama to reveal the significance of rape in the portrayal of gender-relations.
The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in Europe beginning in the fifteenth century, but warfare became much deadlier and the stakes of war became much higher as the new nation-states vied for hegemony and the New World became a target of a shattering invasion. There are times when Renaissance writers seem to celebrate violence, but more commonly they anatomized it and were inclined to focus on victims as well as warriors on the horrors of violence as well as the need for force to protect national security and justice. In Renaissance writing, violence has lost its innocence.