The tested woman plot : women's choices, men's judgments, and the shaping of stories
"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)."
Print Book, English, ©2001
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©2001
Stories, plots, etc
viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
9780814208724, 081420872X
45861669
The plot as story machine
Tested women plot
Frames of mind
Finding the dramatic form
Male role-splitting and reintegration
The provocation of virtue and the burden of faith
Living in the king's two bodies
Acts of persuasion: "the subtlest forms of violence"
Dramatizing and narrating
Pamela as epistolary drama
Plotting, sympathizing, and moralizing
Theorizing the obligation to self
Innocence as ignorance: teaching interpretation
Dream states and landscapes
Telling and witnessing