Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Greenfield, Anne Leah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317318842
• Artikelnr.: 43589078

Autorenporträt

Anne Greenfield

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Overview and Scope; Introduction, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 1
Researching Sexual Violence, 1660-1800: A Critical Analysis, Julie Gammon;
Part II Legal and Social History; Chapter 2 'For the Repressing of the Most
Wicked and Felonious Rapes and Ravishments of Women': Rape Law in England,
1660-1800, Mary R. Block; Chapter 3 From Rape to Marriage: Questions of
Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katie Barclay; Chapter 4 The
Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives
in the Old Bailey Proceedings, Aparna Gollapudi; Part III Drama; Chapter 5
The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660-1720, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 6
Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama, Ann Marie Byrd;
Chapter 7 'A Most Obedient Wife': Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in
Eliza Haywood's A Wife to be Lett, Loring Pfeiffer; Chapter 8 Staging Rape
in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic
Adaptation in 1730s Britain, Jennifer L. Airey; Part IV Fiction; Chapter 9
'What Do You Take Me For?': Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote, Robin
Runia; Chapter 10 'Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do': Heterosexual Rape
and the Violation of Female Friendship, Dawn A. Nawrot; Chapter 11 Bringing
Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental
Journey, Nichol Weizenbeck; Part V Other Genres; Chapter 12 'Violence
That's Wicked for a Man to Use': Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth
Century, Lena Olsson; Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake's
Visions of the Daughters of Albion As Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial, Misty
Krueger; Chapter 14 The Horror of the Horns: Pan's Attempted Rape of Syrinx
in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art, Melanie Cooper-Dobbin;