Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Representations: Literary Texts:
17TH-CENTURY LITERATURE

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[Info] Dane, Gesa. »In Krieg und Frieden. Vergewaltigung in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts.« Bausteine zu einer Verhaltenstheorie des Rechts. Edited by Fritjof Haft et al. Baden-Baden 2001: 270-277.

[Info] Smith, Nigel S. »Slavery, Rape, and Migration in European Transnational Drama, 1580–1641.« 2021 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2021.

[Info] Zipes, Jack. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context. South Hadley 1983.

[Info] Zipes, Jack, ed. The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context. New York 1993.


[Site] Dutch Literature

[Info] Pipkin, Amanda C. »Subtextual Bodies Within a Male Corpus: Dutch Golden Age Women's Literary Responses to Threats of Rape.« 28th Annual Warren I. Susman Graduate History Conference. New Jersey 2006.

[Info] Pipkin, Amanda C. »Uses of Sexual Violence and Conceptions of Rapists in the Dutch Republic of the Seventeenth Century.« 6th European Social Science History Conference. Amsterdam 2006.

[Info] Pipkin, Amanda C. »Collecting Tales of Spanish Depravity: Sexual Violence and Dutch Identity, 1609-48.« 56th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Venice 2010.

[Info] Smith, Nigel. »Slavery, Rape, Migration: The View from the Amsterdam Stage, 1615.« Shakespeare Studies 48 (2020): 80-.

[Info] Smith, Nigel. »Violence, Emotion, and Political Theater: The Netherlands and European Drama.« 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia 2020.


[Site] English Literature

[Info] Adams, Michael. »Specular Rape: Reflections on Early Modern Reflections of the Present Day.« Centennial Review 41 (1997): 217-250.

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. »The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Religious Controversy, and the London Stage.« NEH-EGSA Conference Tulsa 2011.

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage. Newark 2012.

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] Bowers, Toni. Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660–1760. Oxford 2011.

[Info] Burks, Deborah G. Boiling passions, bloody hearts, horrid spectacle. Sexuality and violence in the theater of seventeenth-century England. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick, 1994.

[Info] Burks, Deborah G. »"This sight doth shake all that is man within me". Sexual violation and the rhetoric of dissent in The CardinalJournal of medieval and early modern studies 26 (1996): 153-190.

[Info] Byrd, Ann M. »Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama.« Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800. Edited by Anne Greenfield. London 2013: 69-82.

[Info] Camino, Mercedes M. "The stage am I". Raping Lucrece in early modern England. Lewiston 1995.

[Info] Catty, Jocelyn. Unbridled Speech: Writing Rape and Female Autonomy in Early Modern England 1560-1630. Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford University, 1996.

[Info] Catty, Jocelyn. Writing rape, writing women in early modern England. Unbridled speech. Basingstoke 1999.

[Info] Croft, Lyndsay M. Some Women Love to Struggle: A Cultural and Critical Analysis of Dramatic Representations of Rape in the Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods. Ph.D. Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007.

[Info] Daileader, Celia R. Eroticism on the Renaissance stage. Transcendence, desire, and the limits of the visible. Cambridge 1998.

[Info] Depledge, Emma L. Shakespeare alterations of the exclusion crisis, 1678-1682: Politics, rape, and authorship. Thèse de doctorat, Université de Genève, 2012.

[Info] Fisler, Ben. »Sexual violence, liminal space, and Love’s Last Shift.« Theatron (2003): 25-38.

[Info] Garrett, Cynthia E. »Sexual consent and the art of love in the early modern English lyric.« SEL 44 (2004): 37-58.

[Info] Gossett, Suzanne. »"Best men are molded out of faults". Marrying the rapist in Jacobean drama.« English literary Renaissance 14 (1984): 305-327.

[Info] Gossett, Suzanne. »"Best men are molded out of faults". Marrying the rapist in Jacobean drama.« Renaissance historicism. Selections from English literary Renaissance. Edited by Arthur F. Kinney et al. Amherst 1987: 168-190.

[Info] Greenfield, Anne, ed. Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800. London 2013.

[Info] Greenfield, Anne. »The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720.« Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800. Edited by Anne Greenfield. London 2013: 57-68.

[Info] Greenfield, Anne. The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage. London 2024.

[Info] Julian, Erin. Laughing Matters: Sexual Violence in Jacobean and Caroline Comedy. Ph.D. Thesis, McMaster University, 2014.

[Info] Kometani, Ikuko. Dismembering and Remembering Bodies: Representation of Rape in Early Jacobean England. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005.

[Info] Lucas, Georgina. »Rape, Massacre, The Lucrece Tradition, and Alarum for LondonEarly Theatre 20 (2017): 49-75.

[Info] Marsden, Jean I. »Rape, voyeurism, and the Restoration stage.« Broken boundaries. Women and feminism in Restoration drama. Edited by Katherine M. Quinsey. Lexington 1996: 185-200.

[Info] Miller, Nancy W. Rape and the rhetoric of female chastity in English Renaissance literature. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1996.

[Info] Nix, Ashley. »Dramatized Rape in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England and Modern America.« Aphra Behn Society Conference. Pittsburgh 2017.

[Info] Owen, Susan J. »‘He That Should Guard My Virtue Has Betrayed It’: The Dramatization of Rape in the Exclusion Crisis« Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research 9 (1994): 59-68.

[Info] Pearson, Jacqueline. The prostituted muse. Images of women and women dramatists, 1642-1737. New York 1988.

[Info] Sale, Carolyn J. Contested acts. Legal performances and literary authority in early modern England. Ann Arbor 2002.

[Info] Sokol, B.J., et al. Shakespeare, law, and marriage. Cambridge 2003.

[Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible Acts: Performing Violence Against Women in Early Modern and Contemporary Drama in English. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004.

[Info] Solomon, Diana. »By Force or by Farce: Rape in Restoration Comedies.« 2015 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2015.


[Site] French Literature

[Info] Clarke, David. »"User les droits d’un souverain pouvoir". Sexual violence on the tragic stage (1635-1640).« Seventeenth-century French studies 18 (1996): 103-120.

[Info] Johnson, Sharon P. »Discursive and rhetorical shifts. Rape narratives in fiction, law, and the penny presses (canards) of 17th- and 18th-century France.« Proceedings of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, June 6-7, 2003. Colloquium on gender and crime in historical perspective. Edited by Mary Gibson. 2004.


[Site] German Literature


[Site] Italian Literature

[Info] Leclerc, Nadège. Dire le viol à partir du personnage de Lucrèce. Thèse de doctorat, Université de Caen, 2010.


[Site] Spanish Literature

[Info] Aronson, Stacey L.P. »Representations of Rape in Two Seventeenth-Century Ballads.« Calíope 17 (2011): 59-80.

[Info] Conlon, Raymond. »Amón. The psychology of a rapist.« Bulletin of the comediantes 45 (1993): 41-52.

[Info] Santa-Aguilar, Sara. »Agresión sexual y amor cortés en la novela pastoril en tiempos de Cervantes.« eHumanista 58 (2024): 36-48.

[Info] Welles, Marcia L. Persephone’s girdle. Narratives of rape in seventeenth century Spanish literature. Nashville 2000.