Product Description: The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history...read more

Product Description: Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through nineteenth-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in eighteenth-century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France...read more

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Product Description: This is a critical edition, with introduction, afterword, and notes, of forty-one poems written by one or more women in England and first published in one of the earliest Carribean newsparers, the 'Barbados Gazette'. The poems are of interest not only for thier quality, but becasue they challenge widely held preconcpetions about eighteenth-century verse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "But that's not the way we've always done things." So goes the usual response to virtually any innovative idea. So it has been in the past. So it is today. Thankfully, however, nothing in our universe is more powerful than an idea that works...read more

Product Description: The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Critical commentary accompanies the story of Antonio who risks his life to borrow money from his enemy, Shylock, and is saved by Portia, an heiress posing as a lawyer. (view table of contents)