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The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature » Read Now
by Kathleen Wall. 232 pgs.

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Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 » Read Now
by Sandra Gunning. 198 pgs.

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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature...
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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in "defense" of white womanhood, the white family, and white nationalism. In Writing a Red Record Sandra Gunning investigates American literary encounters with the conditions, processes, and consequences of such violence through the representation of not just the black rapist stereotype, but of other crucial stereotypes in mediating moments of white social crisis: "lascivious" black womanhood; avenging white masculinity; and passive white femininity. Gunning argues that these figures together signify the tangle of race and gender representation emerging from turn-of-the-century American literature. The book brings together Charles W. Chestnutt, Kate Chopin, Thomas Dixon, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline Hopkins, Mark Twain, and Ida B. Wells: famous, infamous, or long-neglected figures who produced novels, essays, stories, and pamphlets in the volatile period of the 1890s through the early 1900s, and who contributed to the continual renegotiation and redefinition of the terms and boundaries of a national dialogue on racial violence.
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Rape and Writing in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre » Read Now
by Patricia Francis Cholakian. 302 pgs.

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...Patricia Francis. Rape and writing in the Heptameron...2. Women and literature -- France...16th century. 3. Rape in literature. I. Title. II...Renaissance literature. In...
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Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law » Read Now
by Kathryn Gravdal. 192 pgs.

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...conditions -- 987-1515. 7. Rape victims in literature. 8. Sex crimes in literature. 9. Rape in literature. 10. Law, Medieval. I. Title...Introduction: The Archeology of...
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Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England » Read Now
by Corinne Saunders. 343 pgs.

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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle...
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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. The treatment of rape and ravishment is considered across a wide range of literary genres: hagiography, where female saints are repeatedly threatened with rape; legendary history, as in the stories of Lucretia and Helen; and romance, where acts of rape and ravishment challenge and shape chivalric order, and romance heroes are conceived through rape. Finally, the ways in which Malory and Chaucer write and rewrite rape and ravishment are examined.Dr CORINNE SAUNDERS is Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Department of English, University of Durham.
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Rereading Rape in Medieval Literature: Literary, Historical, and Theoretical Reflections, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Evelyn Birge Vitz. 26 pgs.

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...Rereading rape in medieval literature: literary, historical, and theoretical...question. Failure to recognize rape in literature is seen as a sign of male bad...discourse...
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Rape and the Romanticization of Shakespeare's Miranda, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Jessica Slights. 24 pgs.

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...of Calibans Woman," in Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, ed. Carole Boyce...reporting events, as in Prosperos charge that Caliban tried to rape Miranda"...
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The Need for Lavinia's Voice: Titus Andronicus and the Telling of Rape, in Shakespeare Studies » Read Now
by Emily Detmer-Goebel. 19 pgs.

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...consistently uses the verb "to ravish" to mean rape and "to take" to mean abduct (248...Wresting the Alphabet: Oratory and Acting in Titus Andronicus," Criticism 21...
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Images of Rape and Buggery: Paul Scott's View of the Dual Evils of Empire, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Janis E. Haswell. 22 pgs.

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...stationed in India during...Commonwealth literature and reromanticizing...goes, is his rape script that...post-Mutiny literature and believed...English male in defense...
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Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon: Romanticism, Rape, and Comic Irresolution, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Jean Wilson. 17 pgs.

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...theme of rape by impersonation...currency in world literature," "a long...recasting of rape as part of...structure. In reshaping...of "comic literature aimed at...the rape...
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Ellipsis, Ritual, and "Real Time": Rethinking the Rape Complex in Southern Novels, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Laura S. Patterson. 22 pgs.

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...issue of representing rape may have a special historical import in Southern literature, the relationship...project of analyzing rape scenes in Southern literature. Defining...
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A Very American Power Struggle: The Color of Rape in Light in August, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Laura L. Bush. 20 pgs.

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...2) See Angela Daviss chapter eleven on "Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist," in Women, Race, Class (New York: Vintage, 1981...and Language in Light in August,"...
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The Seduction of Jim Gilmore, in The Hemingway Review » Read Now
by Marylyn A. Lupton. 9 pgs.

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...examination of date-rape by Lisa Tyler in the Spring 1994...from which works of literature cannot be separated...Macdonald, John M. Rape: Offenders and Their...Canon."...