The Adulteress's Child: Authorship and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Lynne Segal and Naomi Segal

This book examines the relation between mothers and their sons and daughters and the way in which these relations are expressed in fictional texts. In male-authored novels of adultery in French, English, German and Russian, the desired woman often has sons to whom she is tied more bindingly than to her husband; a more direct rival to the lover, a son often falls ill and potentially threatens the affair - thus the woman is kept after all within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745605095
• ISBN13: 9780745605098
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.