Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890: Theories and Circumtexts

by Bill Overton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333770803
• ISBN13: 9780333770801
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.3"