Writing rape, writing women in early modern England: unbridled speech

This comprehensive study of rape and representation, now available in paperback with a new Preface, considers a wide range of texts drawn from prose fiction, poetry and drama by male and female writers, both canonical and non-canonical, demonstrating how the representation of gender relations has exploited thesubject of rape. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Preface to the Paperback Edition - 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 - 'Libertyto Say Anything': Lady Mary Wroth - Conclusion - Notes - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24773-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés