| Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia Contributor(s): Vinitsky, Ilya (Author), Morson, Gary Saul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0810131854 ISBN-13: 9780810131859 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 891.713 |
| LCCN: 2015000067 |
| Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ilya Vinitsky's Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia is the first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)--a poet, translator of German romantic verse, and, crucially, mentor of Pushkin. It focuses overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky's "psychological biography" argues that Zhukovsky very consciously set out to create for himself an emotional life that reflected his unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the evolution of ideas central to Russia's literary and cultural identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades following the Napoleonic Wars. |