Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

Part I Overview and Scope; Introduction, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 1 Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis, Julie Gammon; Part II Legal and Social History; Chapter 2 ‘For the Repressing of the Most Wicked and Felonious Rapes and Ravishments of Women’: Rape Law in England, 1660–1800, Mary R. Block; Chapter 3 From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katie Barclay; Chapter 4 The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings, Aparna Gollapudi; Part III Drama; Chapter 5 The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 6 Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama, Ann Marie Byrd; Chapter 7 ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to be Lett, Loring Pfeiffer; Chapter 8 Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain, Jennifer L. Airey; Part IV Fiction; Chapter 9 ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote, Robin Runia; Chapter 10 ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship, Dawn A. Nawrot; Chapter 11 Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, Nichol Weizenbeck; Part V Other Genres; Chapter 12 ‘Violence That’s Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century, Lena Olsson; Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion As Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial, Misty Krueger; Chapter 14 The Horror of the Horns: Pan’s Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art, Melanie Cooper-Dobbin;

Biography

Anne Greenfield