Adultery in the Novel : Contract and Transgression / / Tony Tanner.

• Author: Tanner, Tony.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) :); illustrations
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1979; reprinted 1981.

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...