Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840

by Andreas Schönle

This comprehensive study of the Russian literary travelogue, a genre that blossomed in the early nineteenth century, sheds new light on Russian literature and culture of the period.

In the decades before and during the rise of the Russian novel, a new form of prose writing took hold in Russia: travel accounts, often fictional, marked by a fully developed narrator's voice, interpretive impressions, scenic descriptions, and extended narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002326
• ISBN13: 9780674002326
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"