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Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression
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Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression Paperback - 2019

by Tanner, Tony

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  • Title Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression
  • Author Tanner, Tony
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 396
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date 2019-12-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1421434415.G
  • ISBN 9781421434414 / 1421434415
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.89 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.33

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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 Hlose, 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.

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About the author

Tony Tanner was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He published books on Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow and on American literature.