Querying Consent

JORDANA GREENBLATT teaches English at York University and writing at the University of Toronto in Canada. KEJA VALENS is a professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature.   

Contents

Introduction: The Subject of Consent

Jordana Greenblatt and Keja Valens

Part 1: Consent, Power, and Agency 

Chapter 1: Consent, Command, Confession

Karmen MacKendrick

Chapter 2: The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste

Amanda Paxton

Chapter 3: Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject

Jordana Greenblatt

Chapter 4: Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do”

Keja Valens

Part 2: Consent, Violence, and Refusal

Chapter 5: The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature

Justine Leach

Chapter 6: Willful Creatures: Consent, Response, and Animal Will in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of 

the d’Urbervilles

Kimberly O’Donnell

Chapter 7: Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence

Brian Martin

Chapter 8:Blue is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent

Caroline Godart

Part 3: Consent, Personhood, and Property

Chapter 9: The Art of Consent

Drew Danielle Belsky

Chapter 10: Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James's Aspern Papers

Annie Pfeifer

Chapter 11: Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity

Graham Potts

Chapter 12: Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes

Matthias Rudolf

Chapter 13: “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew

Victoria Olwell

Notes on Contributors

Index