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Description for Scarlet Letters
Paperback. 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". Editor(s): White, Nicholas; Segal, Naomi. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 .
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 .
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333684306
SKU
V9780333684306
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Ref
99-15
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