Adulterous nations : family politics and national anxiety in the European novel /

In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery and how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperial and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels discussed...

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Author / Contributor: Kuzmic, Tatiana (Author)
Imprint: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Knowledge Unlatched Select 2016.
Table of Contents:
  • Empires
  • Middlemarch : the English heroine and the Polish rebel(lions)
  • Effi Briest : German realism and the young empire
  • Anna Karenina : the Slavonic question and the dismembered adulteress
  • Nations
  • The goldsmith's gold : the origins of Yugoslavism and the birth of the Croatian novel
  • Quo vadis : Polish messianism and the proselytizing heroine.