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Title Rape culture and female resistance in late medieval literature : with an edition of Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles / [edited by] Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reassessing the Pastourelle: Rape Culture, # MeToo, and the Literature of Survival -- Chapter 2: "You and Me, Baby, Ain't Nothin' But Mammals": Animal Metaphors and Sexual Consent in the Poetry of William Dunbar -- Chapter 3: Voicing Violence: Reading Rape Survival in Premodern Lyrics -- Chapter 4: Gentrifying the Pastourelle in the Visual Arts of the Valois Courts and Christine de Pizan's Dit de la pastoure -- Chapter 5: Dismembered Memories: Philomela in Chaucer and Gower
Chapter 6: The Many Wives of Potiphar: Rape Culture in Medieval Romance -- Chapter 7: Legendary Resistance: Critiquing Rape Culture in Virgin Martyr Passions -- Chapter 8: Rape, Rapture, and Writing: The Book of Margery Kempe -- Chapter 9: "And sok his fille of þat licour": Maternity, Sovereignty, and Song in the Marian Lyrics of London, British Library, MS Sloane 2593 -- Chapter 10: Response: A Telling Difference: Sexual Violence, Consent, and Literary Form -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors' speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Pastourelles -- History and criticism
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Scottish literature -- To 1700 -- History and criticism
Rape culture in literature.
Rape in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Middle English.
Pastourelles.
Rape culture in literature.
Rape in literature.
Scottish literature.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Baechle, Sarah, editor.
Harris, Carissa M., editor.
Strakhov, Elizaveta, 1984- editor.
LC no. 2021061826
ISBN 9780271093048
0271093048
9780271093055
0271093056