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The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, while rapes and attempted rapes proliferate in literature. This age also sees the emergence of the woman writer, despite a sexual ideology which equates women's writing with promiscuity. Classical myths, however, associate women's story-telling with resistance t

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Author

Jocelyn Catty (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230309074

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Science, History, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25