{"product_id":"adulterous-nations-tatiana-kuzmic-9780810133976","title":"Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAdulterous Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here--George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, Theodor Fontane's \u003ci\u003eEffi Briest\u003c\/i\u003e, and Leo Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, along with August Senoa's \u003ci\u003eThe Goldsmith's Gold \u003c\/i\u003eand Henryk Sienkiewicz's \u003ci\u003eQuo Vadis--\u003c\/i\u003ecan be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. In each example, an outsider figure is responsible for the disruption experienced by the family. Kuzmic deftly argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations during this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Senoa and Sienkiewicz, from Croatia and Poland, respectively, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Ultimately, Kuzmic's study enhances our understanding of not only these five novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tatiana Kuzmic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810133970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810133976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Tatiana Kuzmic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096743223551,"sku":"9780810133976","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adulterous-nations-tatiana-kuzmic-9780810133976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}