Being Intolerant: Rape Is Not Seduction (in 'The Reeve's Tale' or Anywhere Else)

Author / Editor
Breuer, Heidi.

Title
Being Intolerant: Rape Is Not Seduction (in 'The Reeve's Tale' or Anywhere Else)

Published
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 1-15.

Description
Identifies several aspects of medieval legal discourse concerning rape and explores how they "inform the representation of rape" in RvT. Also assesses implications of modern resistance to recognizing the two rapes in RvT, viewing that resistance as evidence of "rape culture."

Alternative Title
"Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale