A History of Russian Literature: Comprising 'a History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature'

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This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky's classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature. Beautifully written, Mirsky's analyses of Russian writers and literature go hand in hand with his takes on Russian history. From the birth of Russian literature to its Soviet form, this book is a lively and comprehensive examination by one of its leading scholars. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Editor's Preface A Note on Transliteration Table of Contents Book One: To 1881 1. The Literature of Old Russia The Literary Language Literary Conditions Translated Works The Kievan Period The Chronicles The Campaign of Ígor and its Family Between Kíev and Moscow The Muscovite Period Muscovite Histories Beginnings of Fiction The End of Old Muscovy: Awakùm 2. The Passing of Old Russia The Southwestern Revival The Transition in Moscow and Petersburg The First Literary Verse The Drama Fiction and Chapbooks 3. The Age of Classicism Kantemír Trediakóvsky Lomonósov Narrative and Lyric Poetry After Lomónosov Derzhávin The Drama Eighteenth-Century Prose Karamzín Contemporaries of Karamzín Krylóv The Novel 4. The Golden Age of Poetry Zhukóvsky Other Poets of the Older Generation Púshkin Minor Poets Baratýnsky Yazýkov Metaphysical Poets The Theater Griboyédov The Poets' Prose The Rise of the Novel The Prose of Púshkin The Growth of Journalism 5. The Age of Gógol The Decline of Poetry Koltsóv Tyútchev Lérmontov The Poetry of Reflection The Drama The Novelists of The Thirties Gógol Lérmontov's Prose The First Naturalists The Petersburg Journalists The Moscow "Circles" The Slavophils Belínsky 6. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (I) Origin and Character of The Russian Realistic Novel Dostoyévsky's Early Work Aksákov Goncharóv Turgénev The Sentimental Philanthropists Písemsky Novelists of Provincial Character 7. The Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and Playwrights Criticism After Belínsky Grigoriev Herzen The Radical Leaders Slavophils and Nationalists The Eclectic Poets A. K. Tolstóy Fet Realistic Poets Nekrásov The Utter Decline of Poetry The Drama Ostróvsky Sukhovó-Kobýlin, Písemsky, and Minor Dramatists The Costume Play 8. The Age of Realism: The Novelists (II) Tolstíy (Before 1880) Dostoyévsky (After 1849) Saltykév-Schedrín The Decline of the Novel in the Sixties AND Seventies The "Plebeian" Novelists Book Two: After 1881 1. The End of a Great Age Tolstóy (After 1880) Leskóv Poetry: Sluchévsky The Leaders of The Intelligentsia: Mikhaylóvsky The Conservatives Leóntiev 2. The Eighties and Early Nineties Gárshin Minor Novelists Émigrés Korolénko The Literary Lawyers Poets Vladímir Soloviëv Chékhov Interchapter: The First Revolution (1905) 3. Prose Fiction after Chékhov Górky The Znánie School of Fiction Kúprin Búnin Andréyev Artsybáshev Sergéyev-Tsénsky Feuilletonists and Humorists 4. The New Movements of the Nineties The Æsthetic Revival Merezhkóvsky Rózanov Shestóv Other "Religious Philosophers" The Landmarks AND AFTER 5. The Symbolists Balmónt Bryúsov Metaphysical Poets Sologúb Ánnensky Vyachesláv Ivánov Volóshin Blok Bély Minor Symbolists "Stylizators" Khodasévich Rémizov 6. Poetry after 1910 Gumilëv and the Poets' Guild Anna Akhmátova Mándelstam Severyánin Feminine Poetry "Peasant Poets" and Imaginists The Rise of Futurism Mayakóvsky Pasternák Editor's Postscript Bibliography Index