Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature : : With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles / / ed. by Carissa M. Harris, Elizaveta Strakhov, Sarah Baechle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Allen-Goss, Lucy M.,; Baechle, Sarah,; Edwards, Suzanne M.,; Flannery, Mary C.,; Harris, Carissa M.,; Jager, Katharine W.,; Miller, Scott David,; Robertson, Elizabeth,; Rydel, Courtney E,; Strakhov, Elizaveta,; Vines, Amy N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Baechle, Sarah,; Harris, Carissa M.,; Strakhov, Elizaveta,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 illustrations

Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today.In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom.Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recovering the Pastourelle -- Part 1 Essays -- 1. Reassessing the Pastourelle: Rape Culture, #MeToo, and the Literature of Survival -- 2. “You and Me, Baby, Ain’t Nothin’ But Mammals”: Animal Metaphors and Sexual Consent in the Poetry of William Dunbar -- 3. Voicing Violence: Reading Rape Survival in Premodern Lyrics -- 4 Gentrifying the Pastourelle in the Visual Arts of the Valois Courts and Christine de Pizan’s Dit de la pastoure -- 5. Dismembered Memories: Philomela in Chaucer and Gower -- 6. The Many Wives of Potiphar: Rape Culture in Medieval Romance -- 7. Legendary Resistance: Critiquing Rape Culture in Virgin Martyr Passions -- 8 Rape, Rapture, and Writing The Book of Margery Kempe -- 9. “And sok his fille of þat licour”: Maternity, Sovereignty, and Song in the Marian Lyrics of London, British Library, MS Sloane 2593 -- 10. Response: A Telling Difference; Sexual Violence, Consent, and Literary Form -- Part 2 English and Scottish Pastourelles and Rape Songs -- Introduction -- Throughe a forest as I can ryde -- Come over the woodes fair and grene -- When that byrdes be brought to rest -- Be pes, ye make me spille my ale -- Quhy so strat strang go we by youe -- Hey troly loly lo -- I can be wanton and yf I wyll -- Beware my lytyl fynger -- All to lufe and nocht to fenyie -- Commonyng betuix the Mester and the Heure -- I met my lady weil arrayit -- I saw me thocht this hindir nycht -- In somer quhen flouris will smell -- Ane fair sweit may of mony one -- Still undir the levis grene -- Nay pish, nay pew -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index