Scarlet Letters by Naomi Segal

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Scarlet Letters by Naomi Segal

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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 .

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Scarlet Letters by Naomi Segal

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 .
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ISBN 13 9780333684306
ISBN 10 0333684303
Title Scarlet Letters
Author Naomi Segal
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 1997-03-04
Number of pages 232
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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