Author: Segal, Naomi
Title: The Adulteress's Child: Authorship and Desire in the Nineteench-Century Novel
Description: Cambridge, Polity Press, (1992). orig.boards. 23x15cm, viii,257 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. In a soiled dustwrapper. dustwrapper. ¶ An analysis of mothers & their children in 19th Century novel of adultery by Stendahl, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Hawthorne & Fontane. Contents: Récits; Patrilinear Mothers; Matrilinear Mothers; Conclusion.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Social History, Feminist Theory, Stendahl Adultery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Psychoanalysis