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 H�lo�se, ...
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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 H�lo�se, 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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Good in Good dustjacket. 0801821789. Dustjacket in plastic protective cover. Remnants and/or residue of sticky tape on covers, endpapers and dustjacket. With library stamps and labels. Light wear to spine, covers, corners and dustjacket.; Octavo; 383 pages.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 383pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has rubbing and corner wear to boards and spine, binding tight, front flyleaf off-set, text has some erasable pencil marginalia and underlining throughout. DJ has edgewear that includes a small chip to bottom front corner, rubbing.
