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Author Ungurianu, Dan

Title Plotting history : the Russian historical novel in the Imperial Age / Dan Ungurianu
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Introduction : fact, fiction, and the anxiety of genre -- An overview of the romantic era -- Fact and fiction in the romantic novel -- The changing and the unchanged -- Masterpieces in context : Taras bulba and The captain's daughter -- Tolstoy's "book" and a new kind of historical novel -- The age of positivism : "Historiographie romancée" -- The end of progress : facets of the modernist paradigm -- In lieu of a conclusion : A tale of three cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersburg in the Russian historical novel
Summary Traces the development of the Russian historical novel from its inception in the romantic era to the emergence of Modernism on the eve of the Revolution. This book examines the variety of approaches by which writers combined fact with fiction and explores the range of subjects that inspired the Russian historical imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index
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Subject Historical fiction, Russian -- History and criticism
Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Historical fiction, Russian
Russian fiction
Historischer Roman
Russisch.
Historische romans.
Russland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007011936
ISBN 9780299225032
0299225038