Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Depictions of rape appeared regularly in novels, plays, poems and the visual arts at this time, and were used in a variety of – sometimes contradictory – ways. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Editor's Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Figures
pp xi-xii

List of Contributors
pp xiii-xvi

Part I - Overview and Scope

Introduction
pp 1-12

1 - Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis
pp 13-22

Part II - Legal and Social History

2 - ‘For the Repressing of the Most Wicked and Felonious Rapes or Ravishments of Women’: Rape Law in England, 1660–1800
pp 23-34

3 - From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain
pp 35-44

4 - The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings
pp 45-56

Part III - Drama

5 - The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720
pp 57-68

6 - Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama
pp 69-82

7 - ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett
pp 83-94

8 - Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain
pp 95-106

Part IV - Fiction

9 - ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote
pp 107-118

10 - ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship
pp 119-130

11 - Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
pp 131-140

Part V - Other Genres

12 - ‘Violence that's Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century
pp 141-148

13 - The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial
pp 149-162

14 - The Horror of the Horns:Pan's Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art
pp 163-174

Notes
pp 175-214

Index
pp 215-220

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