Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.
Contents
THEORIES -- Theorizing the Novel of Wifely Adultery -- Tony Tanner : Adultery in the Novel -- Children and Childlessness in the Novel of Wifely Adultery -- CIRCUMTEXTS -- Adultery in Early British Fiction -- Ideology of Femininity and Criminal Conversation : 1728-71 -- Adultery, Revolution and Reaction : 1773-1814 -- After Madame Bovary : Female Adultery in Zola -- Parody, Entropy, Eclipse: Huysmans, Ceard, Maupassant.
