Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech

by Jocelyn Catty

Book Overview

The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230247733
• ISBN13: 9780230247734
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"