Adultery in the Novel Contract and Transgression

• Auteur principal: Tanner, Tony (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Sujets: Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity; Sex & sexuality, social aspects
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a specia...