Gary Rosenshield

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary

The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers-poets, novelists, critics, and historians-to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.

Produktdetails

• Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781666925227
• ISBN-10: 1666925225
• Artikelnr.: 67213337

Autorenporträt

By Gary Rosenshield

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A Tale of Two Tyrants: Napoleon and Alexander in Pushkin's
Pre-Exile Poetry
Chapter Two: Pushkin and the Great Man: Napoleon Re-Imagined
Chapter Three: Napoleon and Hero Worship: Tolstoy and War and Peace
Chapter Four: History and the Great Man: Tolstoy and War and Peace
Chapter Five: Napoleon as Superman: Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment
Chapter Six: Merezhkovsky and Napoleon: Re-creating the Myth of the Great
Man
Chapter Seven: Erasing Napoleon: Eugene Tarle, Russian Literature, and
Soviet Historiography
Afterword: Napoleon, the Great Man, and the Idea of History
Bibliography
About the Author