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The Eighteenth century (Lubbock), 2021-03, Vol.62 (1), p.43-62
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay argues that material traces of rape's violence-the staggered lines, inky blots, and tear stains that invariably accompany the most distinctive letters in Clarissa-indicate the novel's concerted engagement with the formal properties and special materiality of epistolary practice-the novel's fictions of materiality-one that endows women's writing with a nondiscursive, quasi-agential force that may convey and authenticate affect, circumvent male discursive control, or otherwise disrupt discursive violence in the aftermath of rape. Carrying with them the surviving memory and residual trace of rape, these vestigial, material forms accomplish the impressive feat of surviving the silencing, erasure, and other forms of suppression writ in the fabric of our discourse on rape. They survive silencing in part due to their non-discursivity, but also due to their intimate connection with female literacy, affectivity, and epistolary practice.