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The Accused: Susanna and Her Readers

The tale of Susanna, typically referred to as a story of failed seduction, is better described as a story of attempted rape. The article explores why scholars have read the tale as an attempted seduction. Readers share the elders’ voyeurism, and are thus seduced into categorizing the event as seduction by their complicity in terms of ’tobe-looked-at-ness’ and masculinity in terms of the agency of gazing. The article finally considers whether the pleasure of reading such a text is the same for all readers, and in particular whether women readers may react differently from men to the code of voyeurism. 27. Readers may also be interested in the treatment of Susanna in M. Bal, Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 138-76, which appeared after I completed work on this article.