The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830-1900 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333614518)

The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain. Successive chapters deal with its development in France, and with examples from Russia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Portugal.

Author: Bill Overton
ISBN-10: 0333614518
ISBN-13: 9780333614518
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/27/1996
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d