Author: Armstrong, Judith
Title: The Novel of Adultery
Description: London, Macmillan Press, (1976). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, viii,182 pp. A book review mounted on rear fixed flyleaf.. Minor rubbing. Some small spots to side page-edge. Good. ¶ This study of major and minor novels written during the second half of the 19th century by French, Russian, English & American authors pragmatically bestrides questions both of literary stature and sociological interest. In the process of distinguishing what is local and historical from what is universal and permanent in the area of social and authorial attitudes to fidelity, inconstancy, class consciousness, taste, sexual equality and incipient female emancipation, the differences between great works and minor ones are inescapably brought to the fore. Anna Karenina, Modame Bovary and The Golden Bowl tower above the others for reasons distinct from but not exclusive of questions of purely literary merit..." - dustwrapper.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Literature, Social History, Adultery, , , , ,