Description
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.
Author: Tony Tanner
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9781421434414
ISBN10: 1421434415
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | General
- Science | History
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 18th Century
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.