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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458228403321

Autore

Ungurianu Dan

Titolo

Plotting history [[electronic resource] ] : the Russian historical novel in the Imperial Age / / Dan Ungurianu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007

ISBN

0-299-22503-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 335 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

891.7/3081

Soggetti

Historical fiction, Russian - History and criticism

Russian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.