Images of Rape The 'Heroic' Tradition and Its Alternatives

Name: Images of Rape The 'Heroic' Tradition and Its Alternatives
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ISBN: 9780521794428

ISBN-10: 0521794420

ISBN-13: 9780521794428

Edition: 1999

Authors: Diane Wolfthal

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The first in-depth exploration of rape as it has been portrayed in Western art from the twelfth through seventeenth centuries. Examining the full range of representations, from those that glorify rape to those that condemn it, Diane Wolfthal illuminates the complex web of attitudes towards sexual violence that existed in the medieval and early modern society. Wolfthal first explores Italian Renaissance and Baroque images of heroic rape, in which the victim seldom suffers and the crime is sanitized, aestheticized, or eroticized. These are contrasted with a range of images, mostly created in Northern Europe, that have been ignored. Often critical of the assailant and sympathetic to his…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.04" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English




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