Plotting History
The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
Ungurianu, Dan
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BOOK SUMMARY
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 incl
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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
AUTHOR BIO
Dan Ungurianu is associate professor of Russian studies at Vassar College.
BOOK REVIEWS
 “A thorough and well-researched history of the historical novel in Russia up to the Revolution, Plotting History is a necessary addition to every college and university library where Russian literature and culture are studied.”—Donna Orwin, University of Toronto
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0299225003
ISBN(13-digit): 9780299225001
Dewey Decimal: 891.7/3081
Library of Congress: 2007011936
Book Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 335
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