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Hardcover The Adulteress's Child: Authorship and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Book

ISBN: 0745605095

ISBN13: 9780745605098

The Adulteress's Child: Authorship and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

This book examines the relation between mothers and their sons and daughters and the way in which these relations are expressed in fictional texts. In male-authored novels of adultery in French, English, German and Russian, the desired woman often has sons to whom she is tied more bindingly than to her husband; a more direct rival to the lover, a son often falls ill and potentially threatens the affair - thus the woman is kept after all within the...

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