The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Charles Moser
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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Contents
THE LITERATURE OF OLD RUSSIA 9881730
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NEOCLASSICISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT 173090
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45 |
THE TRANSITION TO THE MODERN AGE SENTIMENTALISM AND PREROMANTICISM 17901820
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92 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ROMANTICISM 182040
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136 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE NATURAL SCHOOL AND ITS AFTERMATH 184055
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189 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE AGE OF REALISM 185580
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248 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BETWEEN REALISM AND MODERNISM 188095
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