The politics of rape
Subtitle: sexual atrocity, propaganda wars, and the Restoration stage
By: Jennifer L. Airey
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781611494044; 9781611494051
Subjects: Politics and literature; Violence in literature; English drama; History and criticism; Rape victims in literature; Theater; British Propaganda; Rape in literature; History
Description: Beginning with the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and concluding with reactions to the accession of William and Mary, The Politics of Rape is the first full-length study to examine theatrical representations of sexual violence in the latter-half of the seventeenth century. The study gathers and catalogues a wealth of previously unexplored pamphlet tracts to provide a new reading of dramatic sexual violence, one that accounts for the interplay between propaganda culture and the British stage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Rape and the rehabilitation of royalist identity, 1660-65; title: Rape and the roots of discontent, 1666-77; title: Lucrece narratives: Rochester, Lee, and the ethics of regicide; title: Rape and the cannibal father, 1678-87; title: Rape in the aftermath of revolution: images of male rape, 1688-99.