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Adultery (Roman law) --- Adultère (Droit romain)

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May-December romances --- Femmes fatales --- Adultery --- Havana (Cuba)

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In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery and how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperial and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels discusse-Eliot's Middlemarch, Fontane's Effi Briest, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, along with Enoa's The Goldsmith's Gold and Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis-can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. Kuzmic argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations in this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Enoa and Sienkiewicz, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Kuzmic's study enhances our understanding of not only these novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.

Nationalism in literature. --- Adultery in literature. --- European fiction --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Adultery --- George Eliot --- Leo Tolstoy --- Middlemarch --- Poland --- Russia

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An exploration of how Malory deals with the themes of love, marriage and adultery, revealing the socially conservative vantage of the gentry and nobility. Marriage in the middle ages encompassed two crucial but sometimes conflicting dimensions: a private companionate relationship, and a public social institution, the means whereby heirs were produced and land, wealth, power and political rule were transferred. This new study examines the concept of marriage as seen in the 'Morte Darthur', moving beyond it to look at `adulterous' and other male/female relationships, and their impact on the world of the Round Table in general. Key points addressed are the compromise achieved in the `Tale of Sir Gareth' between natural, youthful passion and the gentry's pragmatic view of marriage; the problems of King Arthur's marriage in light of both political need and the difficulty of the queen's infertility and adultery; and the repercussions of Lancelot's adultery in the tragedies of two marriageable daughters, Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbin. Finally, the author reveals and considers in detail [focusing on dynastic dysfunction in three generations of Pendragon men: Uther, Arthur and Mordred] the myth of benevolent paternity by which men, whether born legitimate or bastard, were united through the Round Table. KAREN CHEREWATUK is Professor of English at St Olaf College, Minnesota.

Arthurian romances --- Romances, English --- Marriage in literature. --- Adultery in literature. --- Inheritance and succession in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Malory, Thomas, --- Arthur. --- British gentry. --- Middle Ages. --- Mordred. --- Pendragon men. --- Uther. --- adultery. --- dynastic dysfunction. --- heirs. --- land. --- marriage. --- nobility. --- political rule. --- power.