Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-441) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Reading and teaching rape. Reading Chaucer reading rape / Christine M. Rose ; Rape and silence: Ovid's mythography and medieval readers / Mark Amsler ; The violence of courtly exegesis in Sir Gawain and the green knight / Monica Brzezinski Potkay -- Pt. 2. The Philomel legacy. Raping men: what's motherhood got to do with it? [adapted from Bodytalk (1993)] / E. Jane Burns ; The daughter's text and the thread of lineage in the Old French Philomena / Nancy A. Jones ; "O, keep me from their worse than killing lust": ideologies of rape and mutilation in Chaucer's Physician's tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Robin L. Bott ; Rape and the appropriation of Progne's revenge in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, or, "who cooks the Thyestean banquet?" / Karen Robertson -- Pt. 3. Law, consent, subjectivity. Rape in the medieval Latin comedies / Anne Howland Schotter ; Chaucer and rape: uncertainty's certainties [rpt., adaptation] / Christopher Cannon ; Public bodies and psychic domains: rape, consent, and female subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Elizabeth Robertson ; "Rapt from himself": rape and the poetics of corporeality in Sidney's Old Arcadia / Amy Greenstadt -- Pt. 4. Reading rape: the canonical artist, the feminist reader, and male poetics. Of chastity and rape: Edmund Spenser confronts Elizabeth I in The faerie queene [rpt., adaptation] / Susan Frye ; Spenser's ravishment: rape and rapture in The faerie queene [rpt., adaptation] / Katherine Eggert -- Afterword / Christopher Cannon.
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