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Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the variety of academic responses it has started to create. Bringing together the reflections of scholars from the UK and North America who have worked in this domain, this study offers for the first time a genuinely wide-ranging account of the depiction of divorce across the northern hemisphere in a number of media (fiction, journalism, film and television). It reaches historically from the intellectual and legal aftermath of the Enlightenment right up to the present day. As such, the collection shows both the roots of this apparently contemporary phenomenon in nineteenth-century literary practice and the very particular ways in which divorce characterises the different narrative media of modernity.

ISBN-13

9783039101436

ISBN-10

3039101439

Weight

1.00 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.70 x 8.80 In

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$101.35

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

300 pages

Publisher

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published On

2007-10-09



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