Prologue -- Games people play courting -- Why him? why her? -- The drive to love and who we choose -- Is monogamy natural? -- Of human bonding-- and cheating -- Why adultery? -- The nature of philandering -- Blueprint for divorce -- The three to four-year itch -- "When wild in w…
"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.
The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of widowhood, married for the third time to…
The scarlet letter
by Escott, John, Hawthorne, Nathaniel
fromOxford bookworms library. Classics. Stage 4
Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on the messiah's retu…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…