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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Suzanne M., 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Discourses of Survival
  • Rape Survivors and Living Martyrs in the Lives of Holy Women
  • Looking at "Strange Women" : Pedagogies of Sexual Violence in Anchoritic Literature
  • Outrage Against Rape and the Battle Over Survival in Fourteenth-Century Legal Discourse and the Wife of Bath's Tale
  • Ravished Wives, Sovereignty, and Political Reform
  • Afterlives in the Twenty-First Century.