From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose

by Gitta Hammarberg

Book Overview

Karamzin was the foremost Russian representative of the late eighteenth-century Sentimentalist movement. In this study, Gitta Hammarberg makes use of advances in literary theory (especially those based on the work of Bakhtin and Voloshinov) in order to develop a theory of Sentimentalist literature, which she applies to Karamzin's prose fiction. Professor Hammarberg situates Sentimentalism in its historical context, as a reflection of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025605
• ISBN13: 9780521025607
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"