Representing Rape in the English Early Modern Period Tapa dura - 2003

Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Signed by author with additional inscription on page preceding table of contents. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has full-color illustration of Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia on the front. Cloth displays general rubbing and light shelf wear. ; Chapters: Biblical narratives and pornographic metaphors. Law, legal compendia, and theories of generation. High poetry and low prose (The Rape of Lucrece; Hero and Leander; The Unfortunate Traveller and The Adventures of Master F. J.) Staging rape with dutiful daughters, manly maids, and pornographic subtexts. Late replays, the Fletcher Factcory, and the marriage solution. Picturing Lucrece and the masculine gaze. Afterword. Biblioraphy. Index. ; Mellen Studies in Literature: Jacobean Drama; Vol. 106; 9.25" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Author.