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Waiting for Pushkin : Russian Fiction in the Reign of Alexander I, 1801-1825

eBook, English, Feb. 2006
Rodopi, Kenilworth, Feb. 2006
Scholarly & Professional
1 online resource (429 pages).
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Preface Chapter I: Fiction in Alexander’s Russia: the social and cultural contextChapter II: Literary circles, periodicals and the debate over ProseChapter III: The eighteenth-century literary heritageChapter IV: Sentimentalism in early nineteenth–century Russia: Karamzin’s epigones and new trends in sentimental proseChapter V: Contemporary literary influences: pre-romantic and romantic trendsConclusionsBibliographyIndex