In Adulterous Nations, 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 Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, along with August enoa s The Goldsmith s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz s Quo Vadis can be understood as depicting international crises on the...
In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a...