Plotting History
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Plotting History

The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Plotting History

The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age

About this book

Balanced precariously between fact and fiction, the historical novel is often viewed with suspicion. Some have attacked it as a mongrel form, a "bastard son" born of "history's flagrant adultery with imagination." Yet it includes some of the most celebrated achievements of Russian literature, with Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and scores of other writers contributing to this tradition.
    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.

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"Ungurianu has produced a most valuable work for literary scholars."—Andrew M. Drozd, Slavic and East European Journal

"[Ungurianu's] overwhelming knowledge, impeccable documentation, erudite notes, and valuable addenda make for a treasure house of information and keen analysis. . . . Essential."—Choice

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and the Anxiety of Genre
  5. 1. An Overview of the Romantic Era
  6. 2. Fact and Fiction in the Romantic Novel
  7. 3. The Changing and the Unchanged
  8. 4. Masterpieces in Context: Taras Bulba and The Captain’s Daughter
  9. 5. Tolstoy’s “Book” and a New Kind of Historical Novel
  10. 6. The Age of Positivism: “Historiographie RomancĂ©e"
  11. 7. The End of Progress: Facets of the Modernist Paradigm
  12. In Lieu of a Conclusion: A Tale of Three Cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersburg in the Russian Historical Novel
  13. Appendix A: Chronological and Thematic Distribution of Works
  14. Appendix B: Annotated List of Authors
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index