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Scarlet Letters

Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Nicholas White

    1. Department of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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  2. Naomi Segal

    1. Department of French Studies, University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Films and Fictions

    1. The Fatal Attraction of The Piano

      • Naomi Segal
      Pages 199-211

    2. Dissolving Adultery: Domesticity and Obscenity in The Game

      • Jonathan Smith
      Pages 212-228

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 229-232
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About this book

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 .

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Nicholas White

  • Department of French Studies, University of Reading, UK

    Naomi Segal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scarlet Letters

  • Book Subtitle: Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s

  • Authors: Nicholas White, Naomi Segal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25446-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-68430-6Published: 04 March 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-25446-0Published: 12 June 1997

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 232

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory

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