Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Reading Chaucer Reading Rape

Chapter 3 Rape and Silence: Ovid’s Mythography and Medieval Readers

Chapter 4 The Violence of Courtly Exegesis in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chapter 6 The Daughter’s Text and the Thread of Lineage in the Old French Philomena

Chapter 7 “O, Keep Me From Their Worse Than Killing Lust”: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Chapter 8 Rape and the Appropriation of Progne’s Revenge in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus , Or “Who Cooks the Thyestean Banquet?”

Chapter 9 Rape in the Medieval Latin Comedies

Chapter 10 Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty’s Certainties

Chapter 11 Public Bodies and Psychic Domains: Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

Chapter 12 “Rapt from Himself”: Rape and the Poetics of Corporeality in Sidney’s Old Arcadia

Chapter 13 Of Chastity and Rape: Edmund Spenser Confronts Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene

Chapter 14 Spenser’s Ravishment: Rape and Rapture in The Faerie Queene

Chapter 15 Afterword