SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Philip Sidney

»Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, a treatise, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poesie or An Apology for Poetrie) and a pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. He died fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands, age 31, and his funeral procession in London was one of the most lavish ever seen.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his work. Scholars today often refer to these two major versions as the Old Arcadia and the New Arcadia. The Arcadia is Sidney's most ambitious literary work by far, and as significant in its own way as his sonnets.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 16^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

1. Old Arcadia

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bullard, Angela D. The Representation of Rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias. M.A. Thesis, California State University, San Bernardino, 2005.

[Info] Greenstadt, Amy. »"Rapt from himself". Rape and the poetics of corporeality in Sidney’s Old Arcadia.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 311-352.

[Info] Greenstadt, Amy. Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England. Burlington 2009.

[Info] Scozzaro, Concetta. Cruel Intentions: Rape and Deliberation in the Time of Shakespeare. Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2020.

[Info] Sussman, Anne. »‘Sweetly ravished’. Sidney’s Old Arcadia and the poetics of sexual violence.« Renaissance papers (1994): 55-66.

II. Speaker Index

2. New Arcadia

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bullard, Angela D. The Representation of Rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias. M.A. Thesis, California State University, San Bernardino, 2005.

II. Speaker Index