The first epoch : the eighteenth century and the Russian cultural imagination / Luba Golburt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golburt, Luba, author.

Series:

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies.

Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

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

Russian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modern Russian literature has two "first" epochs: secular literature's rapid rise in the eighteenth century and Alexander Pushkin's Golden Age in the early nineteenth. In the shadow of the latter, Russia's eighteenth-century culture was relegated to an obscurity hardly befitting its actually radical legacy. And yet the eighteenth century maintains an undeniable hold on the Russian historical imagination to this day. Luba Golburt's book is the first to document this paradox. In formulating its self-image, the culture of the Pushkin era and after wrestled far more with the meaning of the eighteenth century, Golburt argues, than is commonly appreciated. Why did nineteenth-century Russians put the eighteenth century so quickly behind them? How does a meaningful present become a seemingly meaningless past? Interpreting texts by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Pushkin, Viazemsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and others, Golburt finds surprising answers, in the process innovatively analyzing the rise of periodization and epochal consciousness, the formation of canon, and the writing of literary history.Winner, Marc Raeff Book Prize, Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies AssociationWinner, Heldt Prize for the Best Book by a Woman in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies, Association for Women in Slavic StudiesWinner, Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Eighteenth Century as a Vanishing Point""; ""Part I: Derzhavin's Moment""; ""Prologue""; ""1. The Empresses' Histories: Lomonosov and Derzhavin""; ""2. Catherine's Passing: Hybrid Genres of Commemoration""; ""3. Poetry Reads Power: Overcoming Patronage""; ""Part II: The Fictions of the Eighteenth Century""; ""Prologue""; ""4. The Verisimilar Eighteenth Century: Historical Fiction in the 1830's""; ""5. Mimetic Temporalities: Fashion from the Eighteenth Century to Pushkin's ""The Queen of Spades""""

""6. The Margin's of History: Ivan Turgenev's Eighteenth-Century Characters""""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299298135

0299298132

OCLC:

883373249