Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Historical fiction, Russian -- History and criticism
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Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Historical fiction, Russian
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Russian fiction
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Historischer Roman
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Russisch.
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Historische romans.
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Russland
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2007011936 |
ISBN |
9780299225032 |
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0299225038 |
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