| Description |
xiii, 284 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
I. Theories -- 1. Theorizing the Novel of Wifely Adultery -- 2. Tony Tanner: Adultery in the Novel -- 3. Children and Childlessness in the Novel of Wifely Adultery -- II. Circumtexts -- 4. Adultery in Early British Fiction -- 5. Ideology of Femininity and Criminal Conversation: 1728-71 -- 6. Adultery, Revolution and Reaction: 1773-1814 -- 7. After Madame Bovary: Female Adultery in Zola -- 8. Parody, Entropy, Eclipse: Huysmans, Ceard, Maupassant |
| Summary |
"Fictions of Female Adultery, 1864-1890 begins by discussing previous attempts to theorize the novel of adultery, and by arguing for an historically-based approach through study of novels by Goethe, Rousseau and others. Three chapters on adultery fiction in eighteenth-century Britain then deal with a wide range of writers from Aphra Behn to Mary Wollstonecraft. A further two chapters on later nineteenth-century French adultery fiction focus on Zola, Huysmans and Maupassant among others. Early British adultery fiction was mainly female-authored and concerned with problems created for women by men; nineteenth-century adultery fiction was almost exclusively male-authored and is concerned with wifely adultery and its potential for social disruption |
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By considering adultery fiction in France after Madame Bovary, and by contrasting this tradition with that of eighteenth-century Britain, the book brings out what is at issue in both, and suggests that the nineteenth-century novel of adultery should be seen as part of the history of misogynism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
This book is a sequel and companion to The novel of female adultery: love and gender in continental European fiction, 1830-1900 (1996) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index |
| Subject |
Comparative literature -- English and French.
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Comparative literature -- French and English.
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Adultery in literature.
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French fiction -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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| Author |
Overton, Bill, 1957-
The novel of female adultery: love and gender in continental European fiction, 1830-1900
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| LC no. |
2002072306 |
| ISBN |
0333770803 |
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