This comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989 and since thoroughly updated, provides chronological coverage of Russian literature over the past thousand years, giving particular attention to the great flowering of Russian literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It provides a wealth of information for scholars, students and lovers of literature.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. The literature of old Russia, 988-1730 Jostein Bortnes; 2. The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment 1730-90 Ilya Serman; 3. The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790-1820 Mark Altshuller; 4. The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820-40 John Mersereau Jr; 5. The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840-55 Richard Peace; 6. The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 1855-80 Richard Freeborn; 7. The nineteenth century: between realism and modernism, 1880-95 Julian Connolly; 8. Turn of a century: modernism, 1895-1925 Evelyn Bristol; 9. The twentieth century: the era of socialist realism, 1925-53 Victor Terras; 10. The twentieth century: in search of new ways, 1953-80 Geoffrey Hosking; 11. Russian literature in the 1980s Efim Ethird; Bibliography Charles Moser; Index.
