Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature

Sarah Baechle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is a coeditor of New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall.Carissa M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain. Elizaveta Strakhov is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War and a coeditor of John Lydgate’s “Dance of Death” and Related Works.

“. . .this collection belongs on the bookshelf of every scholar interested in medieval gender, sexualized violence, and rape – and the many ways medieval women found to ensure their voices were heard and their stories were told.”—Kathy Cawsey Studies in the Age of Chaucer

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Recovering the PastourelleSarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta StrakhovPart 1: Essays1. Reassessing the Pastourelle: Rape Culture, #MeToo, and the Literature of SurvivalSarah Baechle and Carissa M. Harris, with Elizaveta Strakhov2. “You and Me, Baby, Ain’t Nothin’ But Mammals”: Animal Metaphors and Sexual Consent in the Poetry of William DunbarMary C. Flannery3. Voicing Violence: Reading Rape Survival in Premodern LyricsCarissa M. Harris4. Gentrifying the Pastourelle in the Visual Arts of the Valois Courts and Christine de Pizan’s Dit de la pastoureScott David Miller5. Dismembered Memories: Philomela in Chaucer and GowerLucy M. Allen-Goss6. The Many Wives of Potiphar: Rape Culture in Medieval RomanceAmy N. Vines7. Legendary Resistance: Critiquing Rape Culture in Virgin Martyr PassionsCourtney E. Rydel8. Rape, Rapture, and Writing The Book of Margery KempeSuzanne M. Edwards9. “And sok his fille of þat licour”: Maternity, Sovereignty, and Song in the Marian Lyrics of London, British Library, MS SloaneKatharine W. Jager10. Response: A Telling Difference; Sexual Violence, Consent, and Literary FormElizabeth RobertsonPart 2: English and Scottish Pastourelles and Rape SongsEdited by Carissa M. HarrisThroughe a forest as I can rydeCome over the woodes fair and greneWhen that byrdes be brought to restBe pes, ye make me spille my aleQuhy so strat strang go we by youeHey troly loly loI can be wanton and yf I wyllBeware my lytyl fyngerAll to lufe and nocht to fenyieCommonyng betuix the Mester and the HeureI met my lady weil arrayitI saw me thocht this hindir nychtIn somer quhen flouris will smellAne fair sweit may of mony oneStill undir the levis greneNay pish, nay pewBibliographyContributorsIndex