{"product_id":"russian-literature-and-empire-conquest-of-the-caucasus-from-pushkin-to-tolstoy-paperback-9780521020015","title":"Russian Literature and Empire; Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521020015","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRussian Literature and Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Layton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521020015, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.9 x 2 cm, 0.503 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In laying bare the ambivalent and often contradictory expectations of this market, Layton is acute and perceptive...there is much to be learnt from this investigation of an imperial relationship which contained elements of both the creative and the destructive.\"  Goeffrey Hosking, Russian Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian readership too receive extensive attention. As well as exploring literature as such, this study introduces material from travelogues, oriental studies, ethnography, memoirs, and the utterances of tsarist officials and military commanders. While showing how literature often underwrote imperialism, the book carefully explores the tensions between the Russian state's ideology of a European mission to civilise the Muslim mountaineers, and romantic perceptions of those tribes as noble primitives whose extermination was no cause for celebration. By dealing with imperialism in Georgia as well, the study shows how the varied treatment of the Caucasus in literature helped Russians construct a satisfying identity for themselves as a semi-European, semi-Asian people.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Map\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The poet and terra incognita\u003cbr\u003e 3. Imaginative geography\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sentimental pilgrims\u003cbr\u003e 5. The national stake in Asia\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman\u003cbr\u003e  8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo\u003cbr\u003e 9. Little orientalizers\u003cbr\u003e 10. Feminizing the Caucasus\u003cbr\u003e 11. Georgia as an oriental woman\u003cbr\u003e 12. The anguished poet in uniform\u003cbr\u003e 13. Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 15. Tolstoy's confessional indictment\u003cbr\u003e 16. Concluding observations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003283099928,"sku":"9780521020015","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521020015i.jpg?v=1694963437","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/russian-literature-and-empire-conquest-of-the-caucasus-from-pushkin-to-tolstoy-paperback-9780521020015","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}