![]() rape is not an unserious matter" (Luke and Reeves 18). It is acknowledged, for example, that the Marquise of O., the eponymous protagonist of Kleist's famous story, "has in a certain sense been raped and. To be sure, some recognition of the stakes involved accompanies this familiar turning of the tables, the redirection of critical attention from the apparent misconduct of the culprit to that of his victim. ![]() In conformity with traditional Kleist scholarship, the introduction to a popular English edition of the stories presents both works mentioned above as "revolv entirely around the seeming misconduct of a virtuous young woman" (Luke and Reeves 20). ![]() Central to at least two works by Heinrich von Kleist- Amphitryon (1807) and "The Marquise of O." (1808)-are acts of sexual violation. ![]()
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