Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890: Theories and Circumtexts

Overton, B.

Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through nineteenth-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in eighteenth-century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France. It is the first dedicated study of the theory of the novel of adultery, and of the representation of adultery in earlier British and later nineteenth-century French fiction.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-09-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333770801

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286207

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 284