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The deceived husband : a Kleinian approach to the literature of infidelity
- Title
- The deceived husband : a Kleinian approach to the literature of infidelity / Alison Sinclair.
- Author
- Sinclair, Alison.
- Publication
- Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | PN56.P92 S58 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The Deceived Husband is an ambitious and original a study of the representation in European literature of adultery, focusing in particular on the figure of the husband.
- Drawing on psychoanalysis, and primarily the work of Melanie Klein, Dr Sinclair argues that the differing representations of the deceived husband evidence anxieties within patriarchal society about gender and power, about emotional experience, and our ultimate fate of death. Detailed discussions of a wide range of texts including The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Othello, Madame Bovary, Effi Briest, Anna Karenina, La Regenta, and Flaubert's Parrot reveal that fundamental anxieties about masculinity are repeatedly articulated in two main characterizations of the deceived husband: the cuckold and the man of honour.
- These are representations which can usefully be understood, the book shows, with reference to the two early developmental positions forwarded by Klein: the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions. Innovative and challenging, The Deceived Husband makes an important contribution to the understanding of a previously neglected aspect of European literature and to psychoanalytic literary criticism in general.
- Subject
- Klein, Melanie
- Klein, Melanie
- Klein, Melanie 1882-1960
- Europa
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Adultery in literature
- Husbands in literature
- Psychoanalysis in literature
- Psychoanalysis in literature
- Adultery in literature
- Husbands in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Ehebrecher
- Ehebruch Motiv
- Literatur
- Psychoanalyse
- Hommes mariés dans la littérature
- Adultère > Dans la littérature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
- ISBN
- 019815190X
- 9780198151906
- LCCN
- 93021860
- OCLC
- ocm27769374
- 27769374
- SCSB-2004420
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library