The Emergence of a Hero

A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800

AvAndrei Zorin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an educated and Europeanised Russian was supposed to interiorize and reproduce. The case study in the centre of the study is the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished. Brought up on the patterns of emotions he found in works of Rousseau, Sterne, and the authors of Sturm and Drang, he soon found them too narrow for his individuality, and navigated towards a more mature nineteenth century Romanticism, but was not able to make this transition. Turgenev experimented not so much in his literary work as in his life. The reconstruction of this convoluted and enigmatic case is based on archival research and innovative analysis of individual emotional experience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-17
Mått:165 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt:674 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Emotions in History
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198852162
Översättare:Leo Shtutin, Leo ( Translator) Shtutin

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Andrei Zorin has been Professor and Chair of Russian at the University of Oxford since 2004. His publications include By Fables Alone: Russian Literature and State Ideology of the Last Third of the XVIII - First Third of the XIX centuries (2014), On the Periphery of Europe: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite (with Andreas Schönle, 2018), scholarly editions of Russian classics, and more than 200 articles in English, Russian, French, German, Italian, and Finnish.

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The Emergence of a Hero first appeared in Russian in 2016, and remains every bit as fine a work of scholarship in Leo Shtutin's welcome and accomplished translation. In minute detail and with finesse, Andrei Zorin portrays a precocious talent who grasped at the dawn of the Romantic age that a new type of personality was coming into being - a personality prone to melancholy and disillusionment but also idealistic, inclined to self-sacrifice and capable of delighting in love, friendship, philosophy, music and poetry.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Individual experience as a problem of cultural history 1: The emotional culture of the Russian nobility of the second half of the eighteenth century 2: The Prodigal Son (A Youthful Rebellion and the Dramas of Schiller) 3: Three Sisters (Strategies of Love and The New Heloise) 4: The New Abelard (A Thirst for Self-Destruction and The Sorrows of Young Werther) Conclusion