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" Scarlet letters : "
Nicholas White and Naomi Segal
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654849
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Scarlet letters : : fictions of adultery from antiquity to the 1990's /\ Nicholas White and Naomi Segal
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xi, 232 pages ;; 23 cm
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0312173075
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: 9780312173074
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: 0333654609
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: 9780333654606
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: 0333684303
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: 9780333684306
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The heirs of Amphitryon: social fathers and natural fathers / Marie Maclean -- Adultery and killing in La Mort le roi Artu / Sarah Kay -- Adultery on trial: Martin Guerre and his wife, from judge's tale to the screen / Elizabeth Guild -- Notorious women: marriage and the novel in crisis in France 1690-1710 / Joan Dejean -- 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery': adultery in Jane Austen / Claire Lamont -- Legitimation and irony in Tolstoy and Fontane / Felicia Gordon -- Adultery and the exchange economy / Jo Labanyi -- The adulteress's children / Naomi Segal -- Carnal knowledge in French naturalist fiction / Nicholas White -- Patriarchal ideology and French fictions of adultery 1830-57 / D.A. Williams -- No fairy-tale: the story of marriage in Trollope's He knew he was right / Mary Hamer -- Machado de Assis and the beloved reader: squatters in the text / Maria Manuel Lisboa -- The need for zeal and the dangers of jealousy: identity and legitimacy in La Regenta / Alison Sinclair -- No second chances: fiction and adultery in Vertigo / Michael Wood -- The fatal attraction of The piano / Naomi Segal -- Dissolving adultery: domesticity and obscenity in The game / Jonathan Smith
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Taking as its starting-point Denis de Rougemont's famous observation that 'Happy love has no story', Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by the adultery motif throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection which offers a number of close readings of key texts as well as wider contextualisations of this obsessive concern with the narrative potential of triangular patterns
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In addition to focusing on the bourgeois nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery, the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts which range in geographical terms from Tolstoy to Hitchcock and in historical terms from the Amphitryon myth to contemporary films such as Fatal Attraction and The Piano
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Adultery in literature
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Fiction-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/9353
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PN3352.A38S29 1997
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White, Nicholas,1967-
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Segal, Naomi
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