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Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (Hardcover)
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An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of
rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological
and medical attitudes. This work explores and untangles the theme
of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural
tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the
Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and
literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English
literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of
shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. The treatment of
rape and ravishment is considered across a wide range of literary
genres: hagiography, where female saints are repeatedly threatened
with rape; legendary history, as in the stories of Lucretia and
Helen; and romance, where acts of rape and ravishment challenge and
shape chivalric order, and romance heroes are conceived through
rape. Finally, the ways in which Malory and Chaucer write and
rewrite rape and ravishment are examined.Dr CORINNE SAUNDERS is
Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Department of English, University of
Durham.
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