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Writing rape, writing women in early modern England : unbridled speech / Jocelyn Catty.
Van Pelt Library PR428.R37 C38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Catty, Jocelyn, 1971-
- Series:
- Early modern literature in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Rape in literature.
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature--Women authors.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- England.
- History.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 276 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The word "rape" today denotes violent 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 covers a wide range of texts drawn from fiction, poetry and drama, by male and female writers, canonical and non-canonical, and reveals the significance of rape in the portrayal of gender-relations.
- Contents:
- Part I Writing Rape 7
- 1. The Meanings of Rape 9
- 2. Damsels in Distress: Romance and Prose Fiction 25
- 3. 'The subiect of his tyrannie': Women and Shame in Elizabethan Poetry 55
- 4. 'Some women love to struggle': Rape in Renaissance Drama 91
- Part II Writing Women 119
- 5. 'Here the leaf's turn'd down': Women Reading and Writing Rape 121
- 6. Translation and Intervention: Jane Lumley and Mary Sidney 134
- 7. 'Vnbridled Speech': Elizabeth Cary and the Politics of Marriage 153
- 8. 'Liberty to say anything': Lady Mary Wroth 182.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312221819
- OCLC:
- 40753650
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