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

Overton, Bill

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-11-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333614518

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25173-5

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 284