The deceived husband : a Kleinian approach to the literature of infidelity / Alison Sinclair
1993, First Edition. Oxford [England] New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405059
Physical description; 309 pages, 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-292) and index. Contents; 1. The Deceived Husband: A Theoretical Introduction -- 2. Cuckoldry, Honour, and Adultery: The Language of Infidelity -- 3. The Cuckold. The Cuckold and His Reader. The Canterbury Tales. The Decameron -- 4. Men of Honour. The Context. Wife-Murder Drama in Spain. Othello: The Obverse of Honour -- 5. The Adulteress's Husband. Models of Deception: Charles Bovary, Trevelyan, Instetten. Triangles of Transition: La Regenta. Denial and Splitting: Dombey and Son and The Kreutzer Sonata. Family Containment in Anna Karenin -- 6. Men of Distinction -- 7. Conclusion: Love and Death. Subjects; Klein, Melanie. Klein, Melanie Contributions in criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature. Adultery in literature. Husbands in literature.
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