1.

Record Nr.

UNIPARTHENOPE000020655

Autore

Figuier, Louis Guillaume <1819-1894>

Titolo

Il vapore e le sue applicazioni : la macchina a vapore, le navi a vapore, locomotive e strade ferrate, le locomobili / di Luigi Figuier : con numerose note ed aggiunte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Treves, 1887

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 697 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Collana

Meraviglie e conquiste della scienza

Disciplina

621.1

Collocazione

621.1/1 A

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910213847103321

Autore

Kuzmic Tatiana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois, : Northwestern University Press, 2016

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8101-3399-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

809.933543

Soggetti

Nationalism in literature

Adultery in literature

European fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 discusse-Eliot's Middlemarch, Fontane's Effi Briest, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, along with Enoa'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 Enoa 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.