Public Bodies and Psychic Domains : Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth.
Public Bodies and Psychic Domains : Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 281-310.
- Description
- Examines "the role rape plays in the formation of Criseyde's character," contrasting Criseyde with Helen of Troy and Lucretia. Criseyde is a "choosing subject," and the language of rape helps to define the ambiguities of choice she faces.
- Contributor
- Robertson, Elizabeth, ed.
- Rose, Christine M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.