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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Edwards, Suzanne M. (1975-....)
Titre(s) : The afterlives of rape in medieval English literature [Texte imprimé] / Suzanne M. Edwards
Publication : Basingstoke (GB) ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-193 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : The new Middle ages
Lien à la collection : The new Middle Ages
Comprend : Discourses of Survival ; Rape Survivors and Living Martyrs in the Lives of Holy
Women ; Looking at "Strange Women" : Pedagogies of Sexual Violence in Anchoritic
Literature ; Outrage Against Rape and the Battle Over Survival in Fourteenth-Century
Legal Discourse and the Wife of Bath's Tale ; Ravished Wives, Sovereignty, and Political
Reform ; Afterlives in the Twenty-First Century.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index
"From devotional literature that idealizes wives' submission to unwanted sex to political
narratives that frame women's survival of sexual violence as a model for a just monarch,
medieval texts propose that survivors of sexual violence have privileged moral, ethical,
and spiritual insight. The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature explores
these discourses of survival in a wide range of medieval English texts, including
letters of spiritual advice, legal statutes and cases, saints' lives, romances, theological
summae, and legendary histories. In these eleventh- through fourteenth-century texts,
the ethical and epistemological dilemmas that survival poses capture the difficulty
of reconciling spiritual and civic ideals with an unjust, fallen world. Edwards argues
that understanding the literary history of survival as distinct from the history of
rape, can help us to weigh the ethical importance of attending to violence against
women against the costs of reifying gender difference and its traumatic identifications
- both in our study of the past and in contemporary feminist politics" ; "The Afterlives
of Rape examines how medieval English texts--from devotional literature to Arthurian
romance--imagine survivors of sexual violence to have privileged moral, ethical, and
spiritual insight. This medieval history of survival as a site of spiritual transcendence
and political critique continues to shape the terms of contemporary discussions about
gender, rape, and survival"
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Thèmes, motifs
Viol -- Dans la littérature
Spiritualité -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137364814 (hardback). - ISBN 1137364815 (hardback). - ISBN 9781137353672
(erroné) (epub). - ISBN 9781137353603 (erroné) (epdf)
EAN 9781137364814
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45101812s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45101812
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
