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Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression
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9781421434414
Overview
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Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special significance in the "bourgeois novels" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His interpretation begins with the general topic of adultery in literature and then zeroes in on three works--Rousseau's La Nouvelle H lo se, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften, and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. His interpretation encompasses the role of women, the structure of the family, social mores, and the history of sexuality.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Tanner, Tony
- ISBN: 9781421434414
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.89
- Number Of Pages: 396
- Publication Year: 2019
Language:
English