The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage

by Jennifer L. Airey

Book Overview

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating broadsides, this study argues that authors used dramatic representations of rape to respond to and engage with late-century upheavals in British...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644530910
• ISBN13: 9781644530917
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher