Rape and the Rise of the Author (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Amy Greenstadt
Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Amy Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention that emerged during the English Renaissance. Analyzing works by Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare and Cavendish, Greenstadt shows how the figure of 'The Author' - and by extension ideas of the modern individual - derived from a paradigm of female virtue and vulnerability. This volume supplements the growing body of studies that address the relationship between early modern textual representation and notions of gender and sexuality; it also adds a new dimension in considering the wider origins of modern concepts of selfhood and individual rights.
种类:
年:
2009
出版:
Har/Ele
出版社:
Routledge
语言:
english
页:
204
ISBN 10:
0754662748
ISBN 13:
9780754662747
文件:
PDF, 3.66 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2009
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