The tested woman plot
Subtitle: women's choices, men's judgments, and the shaping of stories
By: Lois E. Bueler.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; Women in literature.; English literature -- Stories, plots, etc.; Literature and folklore -- Great Britain.; Man-woman relationships in literature.; Choice (Psychology) in literature.; Temptation in literature.; Judgment in literature.; Trials in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "In this study, Lois E. Bueler examines in broad literary historical terms what she calls the Tested Woman Plot, a "story-machine" that originated in the ancient Mediterranean world (as in the stories of Eve and Lucretia), flourished in English Renaissance drama (as in Much Ado about Nothing and The Changeling), and continued into the novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (as in Clarissa, Adam Bede, and The Scarlet Letter).".

"Encyclopedic in scope, The Tested Woman Plot is a provocative look at a key narrative tradition that spans many genres and should appeal to all serious students of literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.