Marcia A Morris

Writing the Time of Troubles

False Dmitry in Russian Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781618118639
• ISBN-10: 1618118633
• Artikelnr.: 53021881

Autorenporträt

Marcia A. Morris is Professor of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University. She is the author of Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature, The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia and Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Names, and Abbreviations
Introduction: Recurrence, Transference, and Dmitry
Chapter 1. Prelude
Chapter 2. Two Visions of Tyranny: The Late Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3. Verbal Self-Fashioning: The Early Nineteenth Century
Chapter 4. Two Visions of Reform: 1866
Chapter 5. Contingent Self-Fashioning: The Fin de Siècle
Dmitry: Re-resurrection and Conclusions
Sources Cited