Title: The exotic prisoner in Russian romanticism /
Authors: Austin, Paul M.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Russian literature History and criticism; Romanticism Russia; Prisoners in literature
Abstract: Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus.
Contents: Native traditions and foreign influence -- Pushkin's exotic prisoners -- The exotic prisoner : 1820-30 poetry and prose in the shadow of Pushkin -- The exotic prisoner : 1830-40 prose and poetry : Lermontov's harbingers -- Death of the prisoner -- The prisoner within.