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Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400824946 140082494X 1400814685 9781400814688 |