Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature - With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles

A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors' speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works.

About the author

Sarah Baechle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is a coeditor of New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall.Carissa M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain.Elizaveta Strakhov is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War and a coeditor of John Lydgate’s “Dance of Death” and Related Works.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Baechle
• Assisted by: Sarah Baechle (Editor), Baechle Sarah (Editor), Carissa M. Harris (Editor), Elizaveta Strakhov (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2022
• EAN: 9780271092676
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09267-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval