The Nihilist Imagination

Peter C. Pozefsky

ISBN 10: 082046161X / ISBN 13: 9780820461618

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2003, 2003

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Dmitrii Pisarev (1840-1868) was the leader of a cohort of Russian radicals known as the Nihilists and was Russia's most visible literary critic for most of the 1860s. During this pivotal decade in the history of Russian culture Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev published much of their most important fiction, and Russian radicalism itself evolved from a handful of isolated circles into a full-fledged revolutionary movement. The Nihilist Imagination, the first English-language book devoted to this influential nineteenth-century intellectual, explores the convergence between historic developments in literature and politics as well as the ways young contemporary readers approached novels such as Turgenev's Fathers and Sons when they were first published, the evolution of Russian radicalism during one of its critical phases, and the perceptions of government officials and members of educated society of this emerging radical threat. Rather than a biography, this book is a series of essays on the theme of Russian literary and political Nihilism, structured around the analysis of Pisarev's writings, their intellectual sources, and their influence.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 286 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: The Nihilist Imagination
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2003
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 082046161X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820461618
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 165 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 165 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 601 grammes

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Dmitrii Pisarev (1840-1868) was the leader of a cohort of Russian radicals known as the Nihilists and was Russia's most visible literary critic for most of the 1860s. During this pivotal decade in the history of Russian culture Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev published much of their most important fiction, and Russian radicalism itself evolved from a handful of isolated circles into a full-fledged revolutionary movement. The Nihilist Imagination, the first English-language book devoted to this influential nineteenth-century intellectual, explores the convergence between historic developments in literature and politics as well as the ways young contemporary readers approached novels such as Turgenev's Fathers and Sons when they were first published, the evolution of Russian radicalism during one of its critical phases, and the perceptions of government officials and members of educated society of this emerging radical threat. Rather than a biography, this book is a series of essays on the theme of Russian literary and political Nihilism, structured around the analysis of Pisarev's writings, their intellectual sources, and their influence.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author: Peter C. Pozefsky is Associate Professor of History at the College of Wooster, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.