Interpreting sexual violence, 1660-1800 / edited by Anne Greenfield.

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Part 1: Overview and scope -- Introduction / Anne Greenfield -- Researching sexual violence, 1660-1800 : a critical analysis / Julie Gammon -- Part 2: Legal and social history -- 'For the repressing of the most wicked and felonious rapes or ravishments of women' : rape law in England, 1660-1800 / Mary R. Block -- From rape to marriage : questions of consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Katie Barclay -- The disordered fundament : sexual violence on boys and sodomy -- Trial narratives in the old Bailey proceedings / Aparna Gollapudi -- Part 3: Drama -- The titillation of dramatic rape, 1660-1720 / Anne Greenfield -- Violently erotic : representing rape in restoration drama / Ann Marie Byrd -- 'A most obedient wife' : passive resistance and tory politics in Eliza Haywood's a wife to be Lett / Loring Pfeiffer -- Staging rape in the age of Walpole : sexual violence and the Politics of dramatic adaptation in 1730s Britain / Jennifer L. Airey -- Part 4: Fiction -- 'What do you take me for?' : Rape and virtue in the female Quixote / Robin Runia -- 'Nothing but violent methods will do' : Heterosexual rape and the violation of female friendship / Dawn A. Nawrot -- Bringing sentimental fiction to its (Anti-)Climax : Laurence Sterne's a sentimental journey / Nichol Weizenbeck -- Part 5: Other genres -- 'Violence thats wicked for a man to use' : sex, gender and violence in the eighteenth century / Lena Olsson -- The Rhetoric of rape : William Blake's visions of the daughters of Albion as eighteenth-century rape trial / Misty Krueger -- The horror of the horns : Pan's attempted rape of Syrinx in early eighteenth-century visual art / Melanie Cooper-Dobbin -- Notes -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.