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The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

Series The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Charles A. Moser

Publication Date 1992

Hardback ISBN-10
0521415543

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521415545

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521415545

Overview

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Cambridge History of Russian Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The literature of old Russia, 988–1730
by
Jostein Børtnes

The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment, 1730–90
by
Ilya Serman

The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790–1820
by
Mark Altshuller

The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820–40
by
John Mersereau Jr.

The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840–55
by
Richard Peace

The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 1855–80
by
Richard Freeborn

The nineteenth century: between realism and modernism, 1880–95
by
Julian Connolly

Turn of a century: modernism, 1895–1925
by
Evelyn Bristol

The twentieth century: the era of socialist realism, 1925–53
by
Victor Terras

The twentieth century: in search of new ways, 1953–80
by
Geoffrey Hosking

Afterword: Russian literature in the 1980s
by
Efim Etkind

A Bibliography of Russian Literature
by
Charles A. Moser

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