Memory and the Wages of Sin: Displacing Rape in Cervantes and Hardy.
This essay shows that in Spanish and French iterations of the early modern force of blood plot, the violence of rape is diffused within the bounds of interior spaces, where memory is constructed and then set aside. In his 1613 novella, La fuerza de la sangre, Cervantes builds the verisimilar story o...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 98 - 134 |
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