A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900

by D.S. Mirsky, Francis J. Whitfield (Editor)

Overview

Russian literature has always been inseparable from Russian history. D. S. Mirsky constantly keeps in mind the ever-colorful and ever-changing aspects of the one in discussing the other. Sound in judgment, luminescent, and exquisitely written, Mirsky's book is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the world's great literatures. A History of Russian Literature covers the beginning of Russian fiction, the Age of Classicism, the Age of Gogol, and the poets, journalists, novelists, and playwrights of the Age of Realism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810116795
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1999
Edition description:	1
Pages:	401
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

D.S. Mirsky is the English pen name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, often known as Prince Mirsky  (1890 - 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of Russian literature in Britain and of English literature in the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

1. The Literature of Old Russia
2. The Passing of Old Russia
3. The Age of Classicism
4. The Golden Age of Poetry
5. The Age of Gogol
6. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (I)
7. The Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and Playwrights
8. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (II)
9. The End of a Great Age
10. The Eighties and Early Nineties
Index

Editorial Reviews

"[Mirsky's] histories of ltierature ... possess learning, elegance, wit, intellectual gaiety, and an incomparable style and sweep and power of communicating impressions and ideas." —Sir Isaiah Berlin



"Prince Mirsky is both scholar and stylist; his books, therefore, have a double right to live." —Clifton Fadiman

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