Article: Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question and the Victorian Novel.

A woman commits adultery; partly in consequence, she dies; virtue's reward is family happiness. Here endeth the lesson, and the plot-summary of scores of nineteenth-century realist novels. Amy Mandelker, while accepting the appropriateness of this context (as intertext), nevertheless argues that Anna Karenina should be seen as a break from the tradition rather than as its apex. In her stimulating assemblage of interconnected essays she attempts to substantiate three main claims: first, that neither the novel Anna Karenina nor its author's ideas can properly be labelled 'misogynist'; second, that in its aesthetics Anna Karenina is not really 'realist' at all; and third, that ...

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