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The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830–1900

By Bill Overton (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1996
ISBN
978-1-349-25175-9, 978-1-349-25173-5
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25173-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32267820 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 284\298
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Fiction;Nineteenth-Century Literature

Description

The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain. Successive chapters deal with its development in France, and with examples from Russia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Portugal.

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