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The afterlives of rape in medieval English literature /

From devotional literature that idealizes wives' submission to unwanted sex to political narratives that frame women's survival of sexual violence as a model for a just monarch, medieval texts propose that survivors of sexual violence have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritual insight....

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Main Author:	Edwards, Suzanne M., 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:	New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Rape in literature. Spirituality in literature. Women and literature > England > History > To 1500. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.

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