Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

✍ Scribed by Anne Leah Greenfield

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: The Body, Gender and Culture, Vol. 14
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Part I: Overview and Scope
Introduction
1 Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis
Part II: Legal and Social History
2 ‘For the Repressing of the Most Wicked and Felonious Rapes or Ravishments of Women’: Rape Law in England, 1660–1800
3 From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain
4 The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings
Part III: Drama
5 The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720
6 Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama
7 ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to Be Lett
8 Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain
Part IV: Fiction
9 ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote
10 ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship
11 Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
Part V: Other Genres
12 ‘Violence that’s Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century
13 The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial
14 The Horror of the Horns: Pan’s Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art
Notes
Index

✦ Subjects

Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Early Modern, Violence, rape