商品簡介
Greenstadt (English, Portland State U., Oregon) engages in close readings of Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia, Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, John Milton's A maske presented at Ludlow Castle, and Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity to formulate her argument that the act of rape and the language used to describe it are employed as a metaphor with various meanings depending on the writer and the text. In these works, she argues, rape is a metaphor for attitudes about the body, most obviously, but also for ideas about colonialism, gender, sex, writing, the author, and the text. Central to her argument is a close discussion of laws regarding rape in Britain in this era and their basis in Augustine's City of God. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Amy Greenstadt is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University, where she writes and teaches about the cultural history of gender, sexuality, and other forms of human identity and difference.
