How Long to Read The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880

How Long Does it Take to Read The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 by Anna A. Berman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880?

The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 by Anna A. Berman is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 aloud.

What Reading Level is The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880?

The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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