Rape In Early Modern England

Author : Helen Barker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030826093

Get Book

Rape in Early Modern England by Helen Barker Pdf

This book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England. It takes the premise that over the past four decades misunderstandings about rape law, and misreadings of rape statutes from medieval to Elizabethan times, have become widely cited in criticism. Helen Barker identifies how this has arisen, and discusses the main sources of confusion – including indissoluble issues around the word ‘ravishment’. Rape law historically encompassed elopement and abduction; this book offers a succinct overview of the law, and draws attention to the wider social context other than gender opposition in which it is often presented. In addition, critics have been tempted to rely on the ostensibly authoritative seventeenth-century treatise, The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, as a legal source. By examining the context of its publication, this book suggests that the treatise is unreliable and can mislead the unwary.

Author : Amy Greenstadt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317071525

Get Book

Rape and the Rise of the Author by Amy Greenstadt Pdf

Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Amy Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention that emerged during the English Renaissance. Analyzing works by Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare and Cavendish, Greenstadt shows how the figure of 'The Author' - and by extension ideas of the modern individual--derived from a paradigm of female virtue and vulnerability. This volume supplements the growing body of studies that address the relationship between early modern textual representation and notions of gender and sexuality; it also adds a new dimension in considering the wider origins of modern concepts of selfhood and individual rights.

Author : J. Catty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230309074

Get Book

Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England by J. Catty Pdf

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.

Author : Garthine Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139435116

Get Book

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England by Garthine Walker Pdf

An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.

Author : C. Rose,E. Robertson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137104489

Get Book

Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature by C. Rose,E. Robertson Pdf

In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. The volume has two purposes: first, to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate and have generated for readers - especially for the female reader- and second, to explore what these representations tell us about social formations governing the relationships between men and women. More particularly, Rose and Robertson are interested in how representations of rape manifest a given culture's understanding of the female subject in society.

Author : Amy Greenstadt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317071532

Get Book

Rape and the Rise of the Author by Amy Greenstadt Pdf

Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Amy Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention that emerged during the English Renaissance. Analyzing works by Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare and Cavendish, Greenstadt shows how the figure of 'The Author' - and by extension ideas of the modern individual--derived from a paradigm of female virtue and vulnerability. This volume supplements the growing body of studies that address the relationship between early modern textual representation and notions of gender and sexuality; it also adds a new dimension in considering the wider origins of modern concepts of selfhood and individual rights.

Author : Walter S H Lim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031400063

Get Book

Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England by Walter S H Lim Pdf

This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice. It identifies references to theological and doctrinal commonplaces such as sin, grace, confession, damnation, and the Fall in these plays, affirming that Shakespeare’s literary imagination is very much influenced by his familiarity with the Bible and also with matters of church doctrine. This theological and doctrinal subject matter also derives its significance from genres as diverse as travel narratives, sermons, political treatises, and royal proclamations. This study looks at how Shakespeare’s deployment of religious topics interacts with ideas circulating via other cultural texts and genres in society. It also analyzes how religion enables Shakespeare’s engagement with cultural debates and political developments in England: absolutism and law; radical political theory; morality and law; and conceptions of nationhood.

Author : Mercedes Maroto Camino
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037703108

Get Book

The Stage Am I? by Mercedes Maroto Camino Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Catty
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312221819

Get Book

Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England by Jocelyn Catty Pdf

This comprehensive study covers a wide range of texts drawn from fiction, poetry and drama to reveal the significance of rape in the portrayal of gender-relations.

Author : J. Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230617018

Get Book

Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England by J. Ward Pdf

This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation Norwich and the punishment of prostitutes in seventeenth-century London to draw new conclusions about gender in early modern England.

Author : James M. Bromley,Will Stockton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452939483

Get Book

Sex before Sex by James M. Bromley,Will Stockton Pdf

What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understanding of representations of sexuality in early modern England. Drawing attention to overlooked forms of sexual activity in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to “chin-chucking” and convivial drinking, Sex before Sex offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost, the figure of Lucretia, and pornographic poetry, this collection queries what might constitute sex in the absence of a widely accepted definition and how a historicized concept of sex affects the kinds of arguments that can be made about early modern sexualities. Contributors: Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Will Fisher, CUNY–Lehman College; Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia; Melissa J. Jones, Eastern Michigan U; Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College; Nicholas F. Radel, Furman U; Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U; Christine Varnado, U of Buffalo–SUNY.

Author : S. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230286849

Get Book

Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England by S. Roberts Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.

Author : Lee A. Ritscher
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820497371

Get Book

The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature by Lee A. Ritscher Pdf

The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature traces the development of laws regarding rape in pre- and early modern England, including Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Tudor changes to the legal code and how legal code, societal expectations of virtuous women, and medical theory interact to coerce silence from early modern rape victims. These forces come to play in the literary texts under examination, including poetry from Sir Philip Sidney and George Gascoigne and drama by William Shakespeare and Thomas Heywood. By examining the narratorial slippage, the gaps between the original Roman myth and the Elizabethan retellings of the narrative, this study seeks to tease out the sites of particularly English forms of misogyny and discover how this misogyny affects all women, not just those who are rape victims.

Author : Mark Breitenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521485886

Get Book

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England by Mark Breitenberg Pdf

Explores the importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance literature and culture.

Author : M. Healy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230510647

Get Book

Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England by M. Healy Pdf

How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England is a unique study of a fascinating cultural imaginary of 'disease' and its political consequences. Healy's original approach illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Dekker, Heywood and others.