Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Unknown Nechui

2. Describing Ukraine

3. Defending Ukraine

4. Realism, Rhetoric, and Repetition

5. Nechui’s Characters: Women and Joy

6. Nechui’s Historical Writing

Conclusion

Promotional Information

"Maxim Tarnawsky's book is an important contribution to Ukrainian literary studies, as well as to the scholarship on nineteenth-century realism and its complex relationship with questions of national identity. The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine is a pioneering work that makes Nechui fresh, interesting, and relevant to our contemporary concerns, brilliantly repositioning him within Ukrainian intellectual and cultural history." -- Vitaly Chernetsky, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas

About the Author

Maxim Tarnawsky is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

‘A thorough and much needed re-examination of the author and his work.’ - The Ukrainian Weekly, January 10, 2016 ‘Tarnawsky’s book shines a welcome light on an important writer and period that research in the west has neglected.’ - Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (Slavic Review vol 75:02:2016) "The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine is evidence of the revelatory force of careful and unprejudiced reading, and a demonstration of the benefits to be gained from taking one’s canonical authors seriously." - Marko Pavlyshyn, Monash University (Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol 35:1-4)