The Deceived Husband: A Kleinian Approach to the Literature of Infidelity

by Alison Sinclair

This is an ambitious and original study of the representation in European literature of adultery, focusing in particular on the figure of the husband. Detailed discussions of a wide range of texts, including The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Othello, Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina reveal that fundamental anxieties about masculinity are repeatedly articulated in two main characterizations of the deceived husband: the cuckold and the man of honor. Innovative and challenging, The Deceived Husband is an important examination of a previously neglected aspect of European literature and of psychoanalytic literary criticism in general.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 13, 1994

About the author

Alison Sinclair is a Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at Clare College.

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