Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Editor’s Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Part I: Overview and Scope Introduction 1 Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis 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 3 From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain 4 The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings Part III: Drama 5 The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720 6 Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama 7 ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to Be Lett 8 Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain Part IV: Fiction 9 ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote 10 ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship 11 Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Part V: Other Genres 12 ‘Violence that’s Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century 13 The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial 14 The Horror of the Horns: Pan’s Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art Notes Index