Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The literature of old Russia, 988–1730 Jostein Bortnes; 2. The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment 1730–90 Ilya Serman; 3. The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790–1820 Mark Altshuller; 4. The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820–40 John Mersereau Jr; 5. The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840–55 Richard Peace; 6. The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 1855–80 Richard Freeborn; 7. The nineteenth century: between realism and modernism, 1880-95 Julian Connolly; 8. Turn of a century: modernism, 1895–1925 Evelyn Bristol; 9. The twentieth century: the era of socialist realism, 1925–53 Victor Terras; 10. The twentieth century: in search of new ways, 1953–80 Geoffrey Hosking; 11. Russian literature in the 1980s Efim Ethird; Bibliography Charles Moser; Index.

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