Persephone's Girdle: Narratives of Rape in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature
by Marcia L. Welles
Vanderbilt University Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-8265-1335-9 | Paper: 978-0-8265-1351-9
Library of Congress Classification PQ6066.W45 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 860.9355
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A bold, gender-inflected reinterpretation of secular Spanish texts of the early modern period that focuses on sexual violence as expressive of cultural and political issues.
Marcia Welles applies her extensive knowledge of Spanish Golden Age literature and her insightful grasp of current literary theory to synthesize a wide range of material into a uniquely engaging and refreshing interpretation of well-known texts. While the subject of rape and violence has been studied in other European literatures, Persephone's Girdle is the first to do so in the field of early modern Spanish literature.
Marcia Welles applies her extensive knowledge of Spanish Golden Age literature and her insightful grasp of current literary theory to synthesize a wide range of material into a uniquely engaging and refreshing interpretation of well-known texts. While the subject of rape and violence has been studied in other European literatures, Persephone's Girdle is the first to do so in the field of early modern Spanish literature.
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