Adultery in the Novel : Contract and Transgression

• Tác giả: Tony Tanner
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1421434438
• ISBN-10: book.72321
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 809.33 History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (396 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 270155
• Chủ đề: 1. Sex & sexuality, social aspects; 2. Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity

Tóm tắt

 Originally published in 1979. 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 Héloïse, 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.