The First Victim by J B Lynn (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in the USA. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine. Head of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Board clean and unmarked. Spine tight. Fore-edge of text block lightly foxed. No inscriptions. Pages bright and clean. With a publisher's review slip loosely inserted, with the planned publication date of April 18, 1991. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper. No tears. Dustwrapper bright and clean, without any fading to the red colour even on the spine. ***326 pages including notes on the contributors at the back of the book. 236 mm x 160 mm. ***Contents: Introduction - Rereading Rape, 1. PRIOR VIOLENCE - 1. The Education of Chloe: Erotic Protocols and Prior Violence, 2. The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours. ***2. THE RHETORIC OF ELISION - 3. The Marquise's "O" and the Mad Dash of Narrative, 4. "A Little More than Persuading": Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence, 5. Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in "A Passage to India". ***3. WRITING THE VICTIM - 6. Lucrece: The Sexual Politics of Subkectivity, 7. Rape, Repression, and Narrative Form in "Le Devoir de violence" and "La Vie et demie", 8. Rape and Textual Violence in Clarice Lispector. ***4. FRAMING INSTITUTIONS - 9. The Poetics of Rape Law in Medieval France, 10. Rape's Disfiguring Figures: Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptameron", 11. Alice Walker's "Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells": A Struggle Toward Sisterhood. ***5. UNTHINKING THE METAPHOR - 12. The Rape of the Rural Muse: Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" as a Version of Pastourelle, 13. On Ravishing Urns: Keats in His Tradition, 14. Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in "Last Year at Marienbad". ***'Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does - and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes - indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and re-enforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. ***Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, African, Brazilian, Classical, and French literatures and film present a wide range of texts from different historical periods and cultures. Contributors demythologize patriarchal representation in literature and art in order to show how it makes rape seem natural and inevitable. Contributors include: the editors, John J. Winkler, Patricia Klindiest Joplin, Susan Winnett, Ellen Rooney, Coppelia Kahn, Eileen Julien, Marta Peixoto, Kathryn Gravdal, Carla Freccero, Nellie V. McKay, Nancy A. Jones, and Froma I. Zeitlin. Their work raises pressing - and often difficult - questions for feminist criticism.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A hard to find academic study on the cultural representation of rape. Uncommon in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. ***Please note that this is quite a heavy book and will incur extra postage - the book weighs in at 1.2kg.