The 'Tyrant Rapist', Discourses of Matrimony and the Persistence of Patriarchal Political Ideologies in Early Modern Literary and Artistic Fiction.

这篇论文将聚焦于《暴君强奸犯》(鲁道夫2000)的早期现代文学和艺术比喻：一种叙事结构，在这种结构中，无法控制的欲望作为推翻暴君的论据。它将争辩说，“暴君强奸犯”这一虚构的比喻传达了一种叙事，在这种叙事中，男性领导人对女性主体的强奸行为自相矛盾地充当了一种高度男性化的暴力行为，也唤起了(新教)婚姻的话语。斯图尔特的思想将君主制的政治权威比作新教的父权婚姻权威，从而使威权统治自然化。在这种婚姻权威中，男性和女性在精神上结合在一个等级联盟中，将男性视为理性的“头”，将女性视为从属的、过度性爱的“身体”。这种意识形态认为，臣民对国王--他们的‘头’--的不服从是与上帝的教义背道而驰的(Schocket 1975)。这项研究将调查新教婚姻中关于包容的话语--这种话语通常出现在文学描述中的“暴君强奸犯”和受害者之间的关系--如何通过将贪婪的“暴君强奸犯”归入(按性别划分的)等级关系来破坏君主的政治权威，在这种关系中，他们不再是“头”。这种比喻将被视为在一个没有政治言论自由的社会中接触到关于暴政的政治意识形态的一种方式，并且“试图对当代事件或主要人物进行批判性反思是特别危险的”(Greenblatt 2018)。这项研究将考察强奸犯和受害者之间最初使用婚姻话语的动机，并展示这种叙事如何在整个17世纪因应政治意识形态而在结构上演变。根据多兰的论点，现代西方婚姻模式是从早期的现代新教婚姻模式(Dolan 2008)继承而来的，这项研究还将询问围绕着今天的性侵犯的恐惧和意识形态是否与早期的现代包容和性结合结构一致。这项研究将建立在一个假设的基础上，即通过承认我们当代围绕性侵犯的意识形态的历史根源，我们可以更好地理解，并在必要时改变我们现代社会对待强奸的过时方法。

The thesis will focus on the early modern literary and artistic trope of the 'tyrant rapist' (Rudolph 2000): a narrative structure in which the uncontrollable lust functions as an argument for overthrowing a tyrannous monarch. It will argue that the fictional trope of the 'tyrant rapist' conveys a narrative in which performance of rape by a male leader on a female subject paradoxically functions as a hyper-masculine act of violence and also evokes the (Protestant) discourse of marriage. Stuart ideology naturalises authoritarian rule by likening monarchic political authority to Protestant patriarchal marital authority, in which man and women spiritually combine within a hierarchical union that places man as reasoning 'head' and woman as subordinate, oversexed 'body'. This ideology argues that a subject's disobedience to the king - their 'head' - was contrary to God's lay (Schocket 1975). The research will investigate how the Protestant marital discourse of subsumption, which typically appears in literary descriptions of the relationship between 'tyrant rapist' and victim, destabilises the monarch's political authority by presenting the lustful 'tyrant rapist' as subsumed into a (gendered) hierarchical relationship within which they are no longer 'head'. This trope will be viewed as a way to engage the political ideology about tyranny in a society where there was no political freedom of expression and 'attempts to reflect critically on contemporary events or leading figures was particularly risky' (Greenblatt 2018). The research will examine the motivations for the initial appearance of the use of marital discourse between rapist and victim and demonstrate how this narrative evolves structurally throughout the seventeenth century in response to political ideology. Using Dolan's argument that modern Western models of marriage are 'inherited' from early modern Protestant ones (Dolan 2008) the research will also ask whether fears and ideologies surrounding sexual assault today are congruent with early modern structures of subsumption and sexual union. The research will build on the hypothesis that by acknowledging the historic roots of our contemporary ideology surrounding sexual assault, we can better understand, and where necessary change, outdated approaches toward the treatment of rape in our modern society.