Title: The romance of adultery
First published: 1998
Description: Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
Subjects: History and criticism, French literature, Romances, Adultery in literature, Queens in literature, French literature, history and criticism, to 1500, Romances, history and criticism, Medieval Literature, French, Extramarital Relations, In literature
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PQ207 .M33 1998