DRE]New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth CenturyCo-Editors: Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Doreen Thierauf (North Carolina Wesleyan University, USA)Frances Ferguson’s foundational ‘Rape and the Rise of the Novel’ (1987) drew attention to the ‘perverse collusion between the structural passivity of the female body’ and legal as well as psychological obstacles in women’s capacity to consent. [read post]