Marriage as a National Fiction Represented Law in the Modern Novel

The adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century, has a fascinating back story. In the wake of the French Revolution, there emerged a slew of secular marriage legislation which produced a metaphorical surplus that is still effective today. Thro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stöferle, Dagmar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. marriage around 1800 - between contract and sacrament
  • 3. Manzoni - law and novel
  • 4. between fairy tale and novel - Goethe's marriage experiments
  • 5. novels in court - Notre-Dame de Paris and Madame Bovary
  • 6. conclusion
  • bibliography
  • index of persons