Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Map
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The poet and terra incognita
- 3 Imaginative geography
- 4 Sentimental pilgrims
- 5 The national stake in Asia
- 6 The Pushkinian mountaineer
- 7 Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman
- 8 Early Lermontov and oriental machismo
- 9 Little orientalizers
- 10 Feminizing the Caucasus
- 11 Georgia as an oriental woman
- 12 The anguished poet in uniform
- 13 Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism
- 14 Post-war appropriation of romanticism
- 15 Tolstoy's confessional indictment
- 16 Concluding observations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Map
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The poet and terra incognita
- 3 Imaginative geography
- 4 Sentimental pilgrims
- 5 The national stake in Asia
- 6 The Pushkinian mountaineer
- 7 Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman
- 8 Early Lermontov and oriental machismo
- 9 Little orientalizers
- 10 Feminizing the Caucasus
- 11 Georgia as an oriental woman
- 12 The anguished poet in uniform
- 13 Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism
- 14 Post-war appropriation of romanticism
- 15 Tolstoy's confessional indictment
- 16 Concluding observations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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- Russian Literature and EmpireConquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy, pp. 295 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995