Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary - The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy,

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A Tale of Two Tyrants: Napoleon and Alexander in Pushkin's Pre-Exile Poetry
Chapter Two: Pushkin and the Great Man: Napoleon Re-Imagined
Chapter Three: Napoleon and Hero Worship: Tolstoy and War and Peace
Chapter Four: History and the Great Man: Tolstoy and War and Peace
Chapter Five: Napoleon as Superman: Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment
Chapter Six: Merezhkovsky and Napoleon: Re-creating the Myth of the Great Man
Chapter Seven: Erasing Napoleon: Eugene Tarle, Russian Literature, and Soviet Historiography
Afterword: Napoleon, the Great Man, and the Idea of History
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Gary Rosenshield is professor emeritus of Slavic languages and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers—poets, novelists, critics, and historians—to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Rosenshield, Rosenshield Gary
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781666925227
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-522-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, History of specific lands, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet