The Emergence of a Hero: A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia Around 1800

by Andrei Zorin and Leo Shtutin

The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an educated and Europeanised Russian was supposed to interiorize and reproduce. The case study in the centre of the study is the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198852169
• ISBN13: 9780198852162
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"