The Exotic Prisoner in Russian Romanticism

by Paul M. Austin

Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus. Loneliness and desire for freedom competed with elaborate descriptions of unknown peoples - Chechens, Georgians, Tatars and Circassians - to produce a literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820433462
• ISBN13: 9780820433462
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 214 Pages