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Scarlet Letters: Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s

By Nicholas White , Naomi Segal (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-0-333-68430-6, 978-1-349-25446-0, 978-0-312-17307-4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25446-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24941366 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XI, 232\236
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Literary Theory; Cultural Theory

Description

Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings and wider contextualisations. As well as focusing on the bourgeois nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery, the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts ranging from the Amphitryon myth to Fatal Attraction and The Piano .

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