Historic Origin and Social Development of Family Life in Russia
Author : Elaine Pasvolsky Elnett
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Elaine Pasvolsky Elnett
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Families
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Author : Anna A. Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192691864
This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these, in turn, shaped the way they constructed plots. The English placed primary value on the vertical, diachronic family axis—looking back to ancestors and head to progeny—while the Russians emphasized the lateral, synchronic axis—family expanding outward in the present from nuclear core, to extended and chosen kin. This difference shaped the way authors plotted consanguineal relations, courtship and marriage, and alternative kinship constructions. Idealizing the domestic sphere and emphasizing family continuity, the English novel made family a conservative force, while Russian novels approached it as a backward site of patriarchal tyranny in desperate need of reform. Russian family plots offered a progressive, liberalizing push toward new, nontraditional family constructions. The book's comparative approach calls for a re-evaluation of reigning theories of the novel, theories that are based on the linear English family model and cannot accommodate the more complex, Russian alternative. It reveals where these theories fall short, explains the reasons for their shortcomings, and offers a new way of conceptualizing family's role in shaping the nineteenth-century novel. Classics from Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope, to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev are contextualized in the broader literary landscape of their day, and Russia's great women writers regain their rightful place alongside their male counterparts as the book draws together family history, literary analysis, and novel theory.
Author : Elaine Elnett
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Families
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Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300090901
The penultimate volume in this series explores the effect that industrialisation, new technology, the growth of cities, and the revolutions in transport and in communication had on the family between 1789 and 1913.
Author : Gerald Lyman Soliday
Publisher : Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus-International Publications
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Joan Aldous
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Families
ISBN : 1452910375
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Pares
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Elaine Pasvolsky Elnett
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Families
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1927
Category : History
ISBN :
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