Tough love, hard bargains: rape and coercion in Balzac
This article explores representations of rape in the fiction of Honoré de Balzac, in an attempt to understand how both the event and the threat of rape acquire a peculiar and distinct significance in Balzac’s writing. A distinction is made between the simplistic depictions of rape in Balzac’s earlie...
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University of Nebraska Press
2007
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