Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance
- Author / Editor
- Vines, Amy N.
Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance
- Published
- Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 161-80.
- Description
- Discusses the perception of sexual violence in medieval literature, using WBT and "Perceval" by Purcelle de Lis as primary case studies, and describes the medieval misconception that equates sexual assault with heroism.
- Alternative Title
- Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale