Reading Chaucer Reading Rape
- Author / Editor
- Rose, Christine M.
Reading Chaucer Reading Rape
- Published
- Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 21-60.
- Description
- Rose surveys instances of rape or threatened rape in Chaucer's works, arguing that, though Chaucer presents rape as a trope that enfigures reader response or male competition, we must recognize and confront its literal value, accepting it both in game and in earnest. Rape in Chaucer is "astonishingly prevalent and varied."
- Alternative Title
- Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.