Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England

1. Introduction
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Part I. Writing Rape

2. The Meanings of Rape
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3. Damsels in Distress: Romance and Prose Fiction
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4. ‘The subiect of his tyrannie’: Women and Shame in Elizabethan Poetry
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5. ‘Some women love to struggle’: Rape in Renaissance Drama
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Part II. Writing Women

6. ‘Here the leaf’s turn’d down’: Women Reading and Writing Rape
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7. Translation and Intervention: Jane Lumley and Mary Sidney
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8. ‘Vnbridled Speech’: Elizabeth Cary and the Politics of Marriage
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9. ‘Liberty to say anything’: Lady Mary Wroth
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10. Conclusion
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Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, British and Irish Literature