Compassion and the Hero: Women in A Hero of Our Time

Authors

Jane T. Costlow, Bates CollegeFollow

Publication Title

Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time"

Document Type

Book Chapter - Open Access

Department or Program

Environmental Studies

Publication Date

6-2002

Abstract

Praised as the first Russian novel of psychological realism and as a critique of the repressive era in which Mikhail Lermontov lived, A Hero of Our Timebrought to life the political and social ideas that at that time could only be expressed indirectly. This latest volume in the acclaimed Northwestern/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature series presents diverse perspectives of leading Slavic literary theorists and specialists, ethnologists, formalist critics, and Western humanists. Lending additional breadth and depth are conservative and radical reviews of the novel written at the time of its publication, plus two new essays, one on ethnic identity and the other on women's issues in the novel.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/lermontovs-hero-our-time

Recommended Citation

Costlow, J. (2002). Compassion and the Hero: Women in A Hero of Our Time. In Lewis Bagby (Eds.), Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time." Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.