While the rape metaphor, with its built-in issues of power, subjugation, and dominance, attracted many writers of both genders in the early eighteenth century, our understanding of its literary uses and meanings derives chiefly from the rape fictions of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. This study attempts to complicate the image of rape and the rape plot's literary and cultural function in the period by examining rape narratives by three of the period's most influential, yet historically overlooked, women writers: Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Penelope Aubin. In separate chapters on each of the three writers, I argue that their varied and resourceful uses of the rape narrative allowed these women passage into largely male literar...
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "This work explores and untangles the the...
This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century fiction problematizes the relationships among virtu...
This project explores the way legal and prose narrative from England\u27s early eighteenth century d...
While the rape metaphor, with its built-in issues of power, subjugation, and dominance, attracted ma...
Rape shows up with remarkable frequency in English novels written in the eighteenth century. It also...
Rape shows up with remarkable frequency in English novels written in the eighteenth century. It also...
What is rape in early modern literature, and what causes it? How do texts configure injury, will, an...
This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-...
1970s and 1980s feminist writing about rape in relation to early modern legal practice and to its re...
This dissertation argues that portraits of violent women and of female/female violence in Roxana, Cl...
This thesis examines the relationship between fictional depictions of rape and legal and social real...
“Awful Nearness: Rape and the History of the English Novel, 1740-1900,” argues that representations ...
“Awful Nearness: Rape and the History of the English Novel, 1740-1900,” argues that representations ...
The thesis is an examination of Mary Hays's first and second novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1...
Accounts of women’s transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents hav...
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "This work explores and untangles the the...
This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century fiction problematizes the relationships among virtu...
This project explores the way legal and prose narrative from England\u27s early eighteenth century d...
While the rape metaphor, with its built-in issues of power, subjugation, and dominance, attracted ma...
Rape shows up with remarkable frequency in English novels written in the eighteenth century. It also...
Rape shows up with remarkable frequency in English novels written in the eighteenth century. It also...
What is rape in early modern literature, and what causes it? How do texts configure injury, will, an...
This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-...
1970s and 1980s feminist writing about rape in relation to early modern legal practice and to its re...
This dissertation argues that portraits of violent women and of female/female violence in Roxana, Cl...
This thesis examines the relationship between fictional depictions of rape and legal and social real...
“Awful Nearness: Rape and the History of the English Novel, 1740-1900,” argues that representations ...
“Awful Nearness: Rape and the History of the English Novel, 1740-1900,” argues that representations ...
The thesis is an examination of Mary Hays's first and second novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1...
Accounts of women’s transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents hav...
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "This work explores and untangles the the...
This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century fiction problematizes the relationships among virtu...
This project explores the way legal and prose narrative from England\u27s early eighteenth century d...