Plotting history : the Russian historical novel in the Imperial Age / Dan Ungurianu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ungurianu, Dan.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical fiction, Russian--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, Russian.

Russian fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-323) and index.

ISBN:

9780299225032

0299225038

OCLC:

646068349

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08764 hdl