Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

'offers important contributions to the scholarly conversation on the history of rape as well as to the field of Restoration literature.' Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 'an eclectic collection of essays from fourteen historians and literary scholars who examine the range of behaviours that might be viewed as sexually violent, or excused, in Restoration and eighteenth-century England.' Rhiannon Markless, C18th Girl 'Greenfield is to be congratulated for the ambitious scope of the volume and for drawing together scholars of a variety of different fields.' The BARS Review 'These wide-ranging and articulate essays demonstrate how ubiquitous sexual violence was in eighteenth-century life and thought and bring a wealth of scholarship to a fraught subject. This stimulating collection will be a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.' Jean I Marsden, University of Connecticut

• Part I Overview and Scope; Introduction, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 1 Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis, Julie Gammon; Part II Legal and Social History; Chapter 2 ‘For the Repressing of the Most Wicked and Felonious Rapes and Ravishments of Women’: Rape Law in England, 1660–1800, Mary R. Block; Chapter 3 From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katie Barclay; Chapter 4 The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings, Aparna Gollapudi; Part III Drama; Chapter 5 The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720, Anne Greenfield; Chapter 6 Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama, Ann Marie Byrd; Chapter 7 ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to be Lett, Loring Pfeiffer; Chapter 8 Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain, Jennifer L. Airey; Part IV Fiction; Chapter 9 ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote, Robin Runia; Chapter 10 ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship, Dawn A. Nawrot; Chapter 11 Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, Nichol Weizenbeck; Part V Other Genres; Chapter 12 ‘Violence That’s Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century, Lena Olsson; Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion As Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial, Misty Krueger; Chapter 14 The Horror of the Horns: Pan’s Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art, Melanie Cooper-Dobbin;