by NaomiSegal (Author), NicholasWhite (Author)
Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. 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 .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 17 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 0333684303
ISBN 13: 9780333684306