The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature traces the development of laws regarding rape in pre- and early modern England, including Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Tudor changes to the legal code and how legal code, societal expectations of virtuous women, and medical theory interact to coerce silence from early modern rape victims. These forces come to play in the literary texts under examination, including poetry from Sir Philip Sidney and George Gascoigne and drama by William Shakespeare and Thomas Heywood. By examining the narratorial slippage, the gaps between the original Roman myth and the Elizabethan re-tellings of the narrative, this study seeks to tease out the sites of particularly English forms of misogyny and discover how this misogyny affects all women, not just those who are rape victims.
| ISBN: | 9780820497372 |
| Publication date: | 16th October 2009 |
| Author: | Lee A Ritscher |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 124 pages |
| Series: | Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics |
| Genres: |
Language: reference and general Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls |
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature traces the development of laws regarding rape in pre- and early modern England, including Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Tudor changes to the legal code and how legal code, societal expectations of virtuous women, and medical theory interact to coerce silence from early modern rape victims. These forces come to play in the literary texts under examination, including poetry from Sir Philip Sidney and George Gascoigne and drama by William Shakespeare and Thomas Heywood. By examining the narratorial slippage, the gaps between the original Roman myth and the Elizabethan re-tellings of the narrative, this study seeks to tease out the sites of particularly English forms of misogyny and discover how this misogyny affects all women, not just those who are rape victims.
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature features in the following genres: Language: reference and general, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women and girls
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature is available in Hardback
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature was written by Lee A Ritscher and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature has 124 pages
Yes it is part of Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics series