Publication Title

Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle: The Twilight of Realism

Document Type

Book Chapter - Open Access

Department or Program

Environmental Studies

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a 'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siècle Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new light on later realism in all its manifestations.

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Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139683449

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This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

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This material has been published in Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle: The Twilight of Realism edited by K. Bowers & A. Kokobobo. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139683449

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