Noble sentiments and the rise of Russian novels : a European literary history /

Noble sentiments and the rise of Russian novels : a European literary history /

Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History is the first comprehensive study of the overwhelming influence of European bestsellers in translation on nineteenth-century Russian literature, and the first to examine women and men as nobles and equals in the creation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoogenboom, Hilde (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Russian fiction > 19th century > European influences.
Russian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
European literature > Appreciation > Russia > History > 19th century.
European literature > 19th century > Translations into Russian.
Best sellers > Europe > History > 19th century.
Comparative literature > Russian and European.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • European and Russian Sentimentalism
  • Novels and Readers
  • Karamzin Translates the Comtesse de Genlis
  • Education in Translation: Zhukovsky, Elagina, and Zontag
  • Maria Fedorovna and Her Institutes for Noblewomen
  • Pushkin and Sophie Cottin's "Mediocre" Novel
  • George Sand in Russia: Tur, Turgenev, and Goncharov
  • In Defence of Duty: Khvoshchinskaia and Dostoevsky
  • Tolstaya vs. Tolstoy.

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