Fictions of female adultery, 1684-1890

Bill Overton

first published 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 284 pages

"Fictions of Female Adultery, 1864-1890 begins by discussing previous attempts to theorize the novel of adultery, and by arguing for an historically-based approach through study of novels by Goethe, Rousseau and others. Three chapters on adultery fiction in eighteenth-century Britain then deal with a wide range of writers from Aphra Behn to Mary Wollstonecraft. A further two chapters on later nineteenth-century Frenc...

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Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890 edition · 2014 · Palgrave Macmillan · 9781283179591
Fictions of female adultery, 1684-1890 edition · 2002 · Palgrave Macmillan · 284 pages

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