Adulterous Nations

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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description 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—Eliot’s Middlemarch, Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. Kuzmic argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations in this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-390652025-07-31T18:12:43Z Adulterous Nations Kuzmic, Tatiana Literature Adultery George Eliot Leo Tolstoy Middlemarch Poland Russia 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—Eliot’s Middlemarch, Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. Kuzmic argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations in this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:33:37Z 2016-11-15 book 628775 OCN: 964331737 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31390 9780810133990 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39065 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31390/1/628775.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31390/1/628775.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31390/1/628775.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31390/1/628775.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.26530/oapen_628775 10.26530/oapen_628775 48d591b9-fcc1-45f5-8079-0e9222a4efeb Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810133990 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Evanston, Illinois 100718 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection open access
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Adulterous Nations
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