SCARLET LETTERS by Nicholas White (Editor), Naomi Segal (Editor) ( 9780333684306 )

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Title:

SCARLET LETTERS
FICTIONS OF ADULTERY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 1990S

By:

Nicholas White (Editor), Naomi Segal (Editor)

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Paperback

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0333684303

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9780333684306

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

4 March, 1997

Pages:

232

Description:

Exploring the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures, this text focuses on the bourgeois 19th century as the high age of representations of adultery. It also offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts like "Fatal Attraction" and "The Piano".

Synopsis:

Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery 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 of close readings and wider contextualisations. As well as focusing on the bourgeois nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery, the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts ranging from the Amphitryon myth to Fatal Attraction and The Piano .

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