Writing Rape, Writing Women In Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech by Jocelyn Catty

Writing Rape, Writing Women In Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech

Early Modern Literature in History

Jocelyn Catty

276 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The word "rape" today denotes violent sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, w...

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