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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.
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Book Title: The Novel of Female Adultery
Book Subtitle: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830–1900
Authors: Bill Overton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25173-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Bill Overton 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-61451-8Published: 27 November 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-25175-9Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-25173-5Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 284
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature