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
