J. Catty

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Early Modern Literature in His
• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan UK
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349409655
• ISBN-10: 1349409650
• Artikelnr.: 45756419

Autorenporträt

Jocelyn Catty is currently engaged in freelance research in London.

Inhaltsangabe

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