Adultery in the Novel

Contract and Transgression
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3441-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanner, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse
Part III: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Part IV: Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Part V: Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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