The deceived husband : a Kleinian approach to the literature of infidelity / Alison Sinclair
by Sinclair, Alison
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- ISBN 13
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Oxford [England] New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 309 pages, 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-292) and index. Contents; 1. The Deceived Husband: A Theoretical Introduction -- 2. Cuckoldry, Honour, and Adultery: The Language of Infidelity -- 3. The Cuckold. The Cuckold and His Reader. The Canterbury Tales. The Decameron -- 4. Men of Honour. The Context. Wife-Murder Drama in Spain. Othello: The Obverse of Honour -- 5. The Adulteress's Husband. Models of Deception: Charles Bovary, Trevelyan, Instetten. Triangles of Transition: La Regenta. Denial and Splitting: Dombey and Son and The Kreutzer Sonata. Family Containment in Anna Karenin -- 6. Men of Distinction -- 7. Conclusion: Love and Death. Subjects; Klein, Melanie. Klein, Melanie Contributions in criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature. Adultery in literature. Husbands in literature.
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- Title
- The deceived husband : a Kleinian approach to the literature of infidelity / Alison Sinclair
- Author
- Sinclair, Alison
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 019815190X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198151906
- Publisher
- Oxford [England] New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1993
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