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Rape in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Helen Barker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-02 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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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 pas
Rape and the Rise of the Author
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Dr Amy Greenstadt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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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
Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: J. Catty
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-08 - Publisher: Springer

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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 th
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Garthine Walker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-06-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: C. Rose
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer

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In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues t