Originally published in 1979.
His interpretation begins with the general topic of Adultery in literature and then zeroes in on three.
Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage Contract take on a special significance in the bourgeois novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare\'s last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples .
Originally published in 1979