TY  - DATA
AU  - Berman, Anna A.,
TI  - The family novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880
SN  - 9780191957543
U1  - 809.39355 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Families in literature
KW  - Domestic fiction, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Domestic fiction, Russian
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Russia
KW  - Literature
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - thema
N2  - This text 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866622.001.0001
ER  -