Contents

pp vii-viii

Editor's Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Figures

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Part I - Overview and Scope

Introduction

pp 1-12

1 - Researching Sexual Violence, 1660–1800: A Critical Analysis

pp 13-22

Part II - Legal and Social History

2 - ‘For the Repressing of the Most Wicked and Felonious Rapes or Ravishments of Women’: Rape Law in England, 1660–1800

pp 23-34

3 - From Rape to Marriage: Questions of Consent in Eighteenth-Century Britain

pp 35-44

4 - The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings

pp 45-56

Part III - Drama

5 - The Titillation of Dramatic Rape, 1660–1720

pp 57-68

6 - Violently Erotic: Representing Rape in Restoration Drama

pp 69-82

7 - ‘A Most Obedient Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett

pp 83-94

8 - Staging Rape in the Age of Walpole: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Dramatic Adaptation in 1730s Britain

pp 95-106

Part IV - Fiction

9 - ‘What Do You Take Me For?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote

pp 107-118

10 - ‘Nothing But Violent Methods Will Do’: Heterosexual Rape and the Violation of Female Friendship

pp 119-130

11 - Bringing Sentimental Fiction to its (Anti-)Climax: Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey

pp 131-140

Part V - Other Genres

12 - ‘Violence that's Wicked for a Man to Use’: Sex, Gender and Violence in the Eighteenth Century

pp 141-148

13 - The Rhetoric of Rape: William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Eighteenth-Century Rape Trial

pp 149-162

14 - The Horror of the Horns:Pan's Attempted Rape of Syrinx in Early Eighteenth-Century Visual Art

pp 163-174

Notes

pp 175-214

Index

pp 215-220