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Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through nineteenth-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in eighteenth-century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France. It is the first dedicated study of the theory of the novel of adultery, and of the representation of adultery in earlier British and later nineteenth-century French fiction.
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Yes, you can access Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890 by B. Overton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Literary Chronology
- Editions Used andReferences
- Part I Theories
- Part II Circumtexts
- 4 Adultery in Early BritishFiction
- 5 Ideology of Femininity andCriminal Conversation:1728-71
- 6 Adultery, Revolution andReaction: 1773-1814
- 7 After Madame Bovary:Female Adultery in Zola
- 8 Parody, Entropy, Eclipse:Huysmans, Ceard,Maupassant
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index