 | The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Romances -- History and criticism; Adultery in literature; Queens in literature; "A provocative study of an intriguing subject. . . . The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-- Romance Philology Peggy McCracken is the Domna C. Stanton Collegiate Professor of French, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
