The tested woman plot

By Lois E. Bueler

Subjects: Judgment in literature, Choice (Psychology) in literature, Choice (psychology), Man-woman relationships in literature, Narration (rhetoric), English literature, Women in literature, Literature and folklore, Temptation in literature, Trials in literature, Stories, plots, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), English literature, history and criticism, Temptation, Trials

Description: "In this study, Lois E. Bueler examines in broad literary historical terms what she calls the Tested Woman Plot, a "story-machine" that originated in the ancient Mediterranean world (as in the stories of Eve and Lucretia), flourished in English Renaissance drama (as in Much Ado about Nothing and The Changeling), and continued into the novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (as in Clarissa, Adam Bede, and The Scarlet Letter).". "Encyclopedic in scope, The Tested Woman Plot is a provocative look at a key narrative tradition that spans many genres and should appeal to all serious students of literature."--BOOK JACKET.