The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830-1900

by Bill Overton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349251759
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Edition description:	1st ed. 1996
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Chronology - Editions Used and References - Female Adultery, Ideology and Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Towards the Novel of Female Adultery: Chateaubriand, Constant, Musset, Merimee - The Formation of the Novel of Female Adultery: Balzac - From Old Paradigms to New: Champfleury, Feydeau, Flaubert - Alternatives: George Sand and Others - What Is to Be Done? Chernyshevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov - Protestant Fiction of Adultery: Blicher, Jacobsen, Fontane - Church and State: Eca de Queiros, Alas, Galdos - Notes - Bibliography - Index