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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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
