From: Journal of European Studies | Date: June 1, 1995| Author: Franklin, Simon | COPYRIGHT 1995 Alpha Academic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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: firs...