Marriage as a National Fiction: Represented Law in the Modern Novel Dagmar Stöferle

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 347605909X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3476059093
• Author: Dagmar Stöferle 

There is a prehistory of the adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century. In the wake of the French Revolution, secular marriage legislation emerges, producing a metaphorical surplus that is still effective today. Using legal history and canonical literary texts from Rousseau to Goethe and Manzoni to Hugo and Flaubert, this book traces how marriage around 1800 became a figure of reflection for the modern nation-state. In the process, original contributions to the philology of the individual texts emerge. At the same time, law and literature are made fruitful for a historical semantics of society and community.

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