Causality and containment in seventeenth-century Chinese fiction

Causality and containment in seventeenth-century Chinese fiction

In this book McMahon explores late Ming vernacular fiction focusing on the exposition of sexual transgression and the ideology of the containment of desire. Related topics include the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the logic of adultery; adultery as an emblem of the woman's escape from containment and the use of the narrative themes as a locus of sexual transgression.

McMahon, K

Leiden: E.J. Brill.

1988