Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Introduction PART ONE: READING AND TEACHING RAPE Reading Chaucer Reading Rape by Christine Rose Translating Rape in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Monica Brzezinski Potkay PART TWO: THE PHILONEL LEGACY Raping Men: What's Motherhood Got to Do With It?; E.J.Burns The Daughter's Text and the Thread of Lineage in the Old French Philomela; N.Jones O Keep Me From Their Worse Than Killing Lust: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus; R.Bott Rape and the Appropriation of Progne's Revenge in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Or, 'Who Cooks the Thyestean Feast?'; K.Robertson PART THREE: LAW, CONSENT, SUBJECTIVITY Rape in the Medieval Latin Comedies; A.Schotter Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties; C.Cannon Private Bodies and Civic Domains: 'Raptus,' Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ; E.Robertson Rapt From Himself: Rape and the Poetics of Corporality in Sidney's England; A.Greenstadt PART FOUR: READING RAPE:THE CANONICAL ARTIST, THE FEMINIST READER AND MALE POETICS Of Chastity and Rape: Edmund Spenser Confronts Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene; K.Eggert