Adultery in the Novel : Contract and Transgression / / Tony Tanner

• Autore: Tanner Tony
• Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) :) : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Fiction; Adultery in literature; Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Soggetto non controllato: Sex & sexuality, social aspects
• Note generali: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1979; reprinted 1981.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise -- 3. Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- 4. Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- 5. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special significance in the "bourgeois novels" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His interpretation begins with the general topic of adultery in literature and then zeroes in on three works—Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften, and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. His interpretation encompasses the role of women, the structure of the family, social mores, and the history of sexuality.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adultery in the novel
• ISBN: 1-4214-3441-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524702003321
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