Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890

Theories and Circumtexts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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This work is a study of the theory of the novel of adultery, and of the representation of adultery in earlier British and later 19th-century French fiction. Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through 19th-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyses two "circumtexts" of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in 18th- century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-09-06
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt579 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
Upplaga2002
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333770801

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BILL OVERTON is Reader in Literature at Loughborough University. His most recent publications include The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction and A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731-1737. He has also written articles and reviews in journals including Critical Quarterly, Modern Language Review and Women's Writing.

Preface Acknowledgements Literary Chronology Editions Used and References PART I: THOERIES Theorizing the Novel of Female Adultery Tony Tanner: Adultery and the Novel Children and Childlessness in the Novel of Female Adultery PART II: CIRCUMTEXTS Adultery in Early British Fiction Ideology of Femininity and Criminal Conversion: 1728-71 Adultery, Revolution, and Reaction: 1773-1814 After Madame Bovary : Female Adultery in Zola Parody, Entropy, Eclipse: Huysmans, Céard, Maupassant Notes Bibliography Index Notes Bibliography Index