Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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968109
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b722479
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Main Entry
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Layton, Susan.
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Title & Author
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Russian literature and empire : : conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy /\ Susan Layton.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York, NY :: Cambridge University Press,, 1994.
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Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in Russian literature
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Page. NO
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xi, 354 pages :: maps ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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0521020018
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: 0521444438
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: 9780521020015
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: 9780521444439
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index.
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Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. The poet and terra incognita -- 3. Imaginative geography -- 4. Sentimental pilgrims -- 5. The national stake in Asia -- 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer -- 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman -- 8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo -- 9. Little orientalizers -- 10. Feminizing the Caucasus -- 11. Georgia as an oriental woman -- 12. The anguished poet in uniform -- 13. Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism -- 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism -- 15. Tolstoy's confessional indictment -- 16. Concluding observations.
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Abstract
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This is the first book to provide a synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian readership to receive extensive attention. As well as exploring literature as such, Susan Layton introduces material from travelogues, oriental studies, ethnography, memoirs, and the utterances of tsarist officials and military commanders. While showing how literature often underwrote imperialism, the book carefully explores the tensions between the Russian state's ideology of a European mission to civilize the Muslim mountain peoples, and romantic perceptions of those tribes as noble primitives whose extermination was no cause for celebration.
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By dealing with imperialism in Georgia as well, the study shows how the varied treatment of the Caucasus in literature helped Russians construct a satisfying identity for themselves as a semi-European, semi-Asian people.
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Subject
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Romanticism-- Russia.
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Subject
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Russian literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Subject
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Caucase dans la littérature.
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Subject
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Littérature russe-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Orient dans la littérature.
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Romantisme-- Russie.
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Russie dans la littérature.
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Subject
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International relations.
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Subject
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Kaukasus
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Subject
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Literatur
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Literature.
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Littérature russe-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Romanticism-- Russia.
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Romanticism.
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Subject
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Russian literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Subject
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Russian literature.
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Subject
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Letterkunde.
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Subject
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Russisch.
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Subject
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Die Stadt ohne Juden
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Subject
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Caucasus, In literature.
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Subject
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Caucasus, Relations, Russia.
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Subject
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Orient, In literature.
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Subject
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Russia, Relations, Caucasus.
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Subject
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Caucase, Relations, Russie, dans la littérature.
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Subject
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Russie, Relations, Caucase dans la littérature.
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Subject
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Asia, Orient.
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Subject
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Caucase (Russie), Dans la littérature.
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Subject
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Caucase, Dans la littérature.
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Subject
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Caucase, Relations, Russie.
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Subject
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Caucasus, In literature.
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Subject
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Caucasus, Relations, Russia.
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Subject
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Caucasus.
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Subject
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Kaukasus (Motiv)
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Subject
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Orient, In literature.
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Subject
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Russia, Relations, Caucasus.
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Subject
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Russia.
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Subject
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Russie, Relations, Caucase.
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Subject
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Russisch.
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Dewey Classification
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891.709/32479/09034
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LC Classification
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PG3015.5.C3L39 1994
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NLM classification
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15.70bcl
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18.53bcl
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7,41ssgn
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KI 1931rvk
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KI 1981rvk
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