The Deceived Husband: A Kleinian Approach to the Literature of Infidelity

by Alison Sinclair

The Deceived Husband is an ambitious and original study of the representation in European literature of adultery, focusing in particular on the figure of the husband.Drawing on psychoanalysis, and primarily the work of Melanie Klein, Dr Sinclair argues that the differing representations of the deceived husband evidence anxieties within patriarchal society about gender and power, and ultimately about death and the unknown. Detailed discussions of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019815190X
• ISBN13: 9780198151906
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 117.00 lbs.