Representing rape in Medieval and early modern literature / edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robertson, Elizabeth Ann, 1951-

Rose, Christine M., 1949-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

453 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

In 13 studies of representations of rape in medieval and early modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser, this innovative book argues that some form of sexual violence against women has always served as a foundation of Western culture. The book has two purposes: to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate for readers--especially for female readers--and to explore what these representations tell us about the relationships between men and women. Rose and Robertson focus in particular on the way depictions of rape make manifest a culture' s understanding of the female subject in society.

Contents:

pt. 1. Reading and teaching rape. Reading Chaucer reading rape / Christine M. Rose ; Rape and silence: Ovid's mythography and medieval readers / Mark Amsler ; The violence of courtly exegesis in Sir Gawain and the green knight / Monica Brzezinski Potkay

pt. 2. The Philomel legacy. Raping men: what's motherhood got to do with it? [adapted from Bodytalk (1993)] / E. Jane Burns ; The daughter's text and the thread of lineage in the Old French Philomena / Nancy A. Jones ; "O, keep me from their worse than killing lust": ideologies of rape and mutilation in Chaucer's Physician's tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Robin L. Bott ; Rape and the appropriation of Progne's revenge in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, or, "who cooks the Thyestean banquet?" / Karen Robertson

pt. 3. Law, consent, subjectivity. Rape in the medieval Latin comedies / Anne Howland Schotter ; Chaucer and rape: uncertainty's certainties [rpt., adaptation] / Christopher Cannon ; Public bodies and psychic domains: rape, consent, and female subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Elizabeth Robertson ; "Rapt from himself": rape and the poetics of corporeality in Sidney's Old Arcadia / Amy Greenstadt

pt. 4. Reading rape: the canonical artist, the feminist reader, and male poetics. Of chastity and rape: Edmund Spenser confronts Elizabeth I in The faerie queene [rpt., adaptation] / Susan Frye ; Spenser's ravishment: rape and rapture in The faerie queene [rpt., adaptation] / Katherine Eggert

Afterword / Christopher Cannon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-441) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312236484

OCLC:

45829818