The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

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Charles Moser
Cambridge University Press, Apr 30, 1992 - Literary Criticism - 709 pages
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.
 

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THE LITERATURE OF OLD RUSSIA 9881730
1
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NEOCLASSICISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT 173090
45
THE TRANSITION TO THE MODERN AGE SENTIMENTALISM AND PREROMANTICISM 17901820
92
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ROMANTICISM 182040
136
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE NATURAL SCHOOL AND ITS AFTERMATH 184055
189
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE AGE OF REALISM 185580
248
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BETWEEN REALISM AND MODERNISM 188095
333
TURN OF A CENTURY MODERNISM 18951925
387
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE ERA OF SOCIALIST REALISM 192553
458
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SEARCH OF NEW WAYS 195380
520
AFTERWORD RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN THE 1980s
595
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
615
INDEX
653
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