‘Ensnared Chastity’: Milton’s Comus , Woolf’s The Voyage Out , and Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls

In Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, her protagonist, Rachel Vinrace, listens to her fiancé read from John Milton’s masque, Comus. Immediately afterward, Rachel retires to her room comp...

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Women s Studies
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2026-10-07
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2026.2732201
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Modernist Literature and Criticism
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‘Ensnared Chastity’: Milton’s Comus , Woolf’s The Voyage Out , and Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls

Lisa Tyler
Women s Studies
Modernist Literature and Criticism
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‘Ensnared Chastity’: Milton’s Comus , Woolf’s The Voyage Out , and Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls

Lisa Tyler
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In Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, her protagonist, Rachel Vinrace, listens to her fiancé read from John Milton’s masque, Comus. Immediately afterward, Rachel retires to her room comp...

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