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 a...

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