Russian Literature and Empire - Conquest of the Caucasus From Pushkin to Tolstoy

Zusammenfassung The first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Map; 1. Introduction; 2. The poet and terra incognita; 3. Imaginative geography; 4. Sentimental pilgrims; 5. The national stake in Asia; 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer; 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman; 8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo; 9. Little orientalizers; 10. Feminizing the Caucasus; 11. Georgia as an oriental woman; 12. The anguished poet in uniform; 13. Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism; 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism; 15. Tolstoy's confessional indictment; 16. Concluding observations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Susan Layton, Susan (Institut D''etudes Slaves Layton, Layton Susan
• Assisted by: Anthony Cross (Editor), Anthony Professor Cross (Editor), Catriona Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521020015
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02001-5
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet