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Attendant Spirit
Augustine's Influence
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authorship and gender
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CCXI Sociable Letters
Deep Purple
early modern selfhood
English Renaissance literature
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Erected Wit
Eyes Bright
feminist literary criticism
gendered authorship in Renaissance England
Historicall Fiction
Lady's Song
Lawes Resolutions
literary intention theory
Lucrece's Body
Lucrece's Face
Male Chastity
Milton's Masque
Milton's Writings
Milton’s Masque
Montgomery's Urania
Ragged Rout
Rape Lucrece
Ravishing Effects
Rhetorical Barrier
sexual violence representation
Shakespeare's Poem
Shepherd Lad
Sidney's Romance
Sidney’s Romance
Sociable Letters
Waxen Minds
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754662747
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, Amy Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogy between rape and writing centrally informed ideas of literary intention that emerged during the English Renaissance. Analyzing works by Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare and Cavendish, Greenstadt shows how the figure of 'The Author' - and by extension ideas of the modern individual--derived from a paradigm of female virtue and vulnerability. This volume supplements the growing body of studies that address the relationship between early modern textual representation and notions of gender and sexuality; it also adds a new dimension in considering the wider origins of modern concepts of selfhood and individual rights.
Amy Greenstadt is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University, where she writes and teaches about the cultural history of gender, sexuality, and other forms of human identity and difference.
