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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| 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.