Plotting History
Subtitle: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: November 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780299225001
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary History And Criticism; Russian Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; 19th century; Historical fiction, Russian; History and criticism; Russian fiction
Description: "Dan Ungurianu's Plotting History 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 Organized historically and thematically, the study is focused on the cultural paradigms that shaped the evolution of the genre and are reflected in masterpieces such as The Captain's Daughter and War and Peace. Ungurianu examines the variety of approaches by which Russian writers combined fact with fiction and explores the range of subjects that inspired the Russian historical imagination."--Jacket.