Vicissitudes of genre in the Russian novel

By Russell Scott Valentino

Subjects: 891.73/309, Chernyshevskii, nikolai gavrilovich, 1828-1889, Turgenev, ivan sergeevich, 1818-1883, Russian fiction--history and criticism, Russian fiction, history and criticism, Gorky, maksim, 1868-1936, Gorky, maksim , 1868-1936, Turgenev, ivan sergeevich , 1818-1883, Dostoyevsky, fyodor , 1821-1881, Russian fiction--19th century--history and criticism, History and criticism, Russian fiction, Russian fiction--20th century--history and criticism, Dostoyevsky, fyodor, 1821-1881, Chernyshevsky, nikolay gavrilovich , 1828-1889, Pg3098.3 .v35 2001

Description: "The 1860s witnessed one of the most vibrant periods in the history of modern Russian literature. This book focuses on what was arguably its most influential genre - the Russian tendentious novel. While tracing the genre's early development through works such as Fathers and Sons and Notes from Underground, it simultaneously unfolds a unique approach to reading late-nineteenth-century Russian literature by showing how rich conflicting interpretations of the classics continue to be possible and by indicating numerous deep-rooted connections between the tendentious novels of the nineteenth century and their twentieth-century literary progeny."--BOOK JACKET.