The Ambiguity of Consent: Teaching Rape Culture alongside Marlowe’s Hero and Leander and the Renaissance Sonnet Tradition | hc:17807 | Humanities CORE

The Ambiguity of Consent: Teaching Rape Culture alongside Marlowe's Hero and Leander and the Renaissance Sonnet Tradition

Author(s):

Eric Dunnum (see profile)

Date:

2018

Subject(s):

British literature, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Renaissance, Sex (Psychology)--Study and teaching

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

Gender and sexuality, Rape, Rape Culture, Early modern British literature, Sexuality studies, Gender

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6X54R

Abstract:

This article describes how I use Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" in the class room to talk about rape and sexual assault. It also argues that Marlowe is aware of what we know refer to as rape culture and uses this concept to add context to the violent sexual encounter in the poem. For Marlowe this means a critique of the Petrarchian tradition and an awareness of how this tradition creates a situation where men can't take no for an answer and women are unable to say yes.

Notes:

This article is set to appear in SMART.

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