Julie A. Buckler is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

"Buckler's book is the first serious English-language scholarship on Russian opera to be published since the Gorbachev/Yeltsin thaw. . . . The strengths of the book are twofold: revelation of new evidence discovered in archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow and exegesis of the process by which texts circulated between opera and prose literature. . . . Buckler is to be commended for her keen analyses of meta-theatrical novels and stories by lesser-known nineteenth-century authors. . . ."—The Russian Review "This monograph should be of interest to anyone concerned with nineteenth century Russian cultural life. . . . Readers of this monograph can only hope that [Buckler] will continue further research . . . and produce more work as rewarding as this book."—Slavic and East European Journal "The greatest attribute of The Literary Lorgnette . . . .is its wealth of information. Thanks to diligent research, Julie A. Buckler . . . .paints a detailed picture of nineteenth-century Russian opera culture. By the end of the book, the reader has learned about seminal Western and Russian operas; the custom of opera-going; major personalities; and how opera permeated literature."—Canadian Slavonic Papers

• 1. Introduction; 2. Attending opera: a literary ethnography of the St Petersburg Bolshoi theater; 3. Embodying opera: the prima donna in Russia; 4. Representing opera: scene and self; 5. Naturalizing opera: the case of La Traviata in Russia; 6. Reading opera: the theater of psychological prose; 7. Divining opera: literary tales of operatic heroines; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Julie A. Buckler is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

"Buckler's book is the first serious English-language scholarship on Russian opera to be published since the Gorbachev/Yeltsin thaw. . . . The strengths of the book are twofold: revelation of new evidence discovered in archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow and exegesis of the process by which texts circulated between opera and prose literature. . . . Buckler is to be commended for her keen analyses of meta-theatrical novels and stories by lesser-known nineteenth-century authors. . . ."—The Russian Review "This monograph should be of interest to anyone concerned with nineteenth century Russian cultural life. . . . Readers of this monograph can only hope that [Buckler] will continue further research . . . and produce more work as rewarding as this book."—Slavic and East European Journal "The greatest attribute of The Literary Lorgnette . . . .is its wealth of information. Thanks to diligent research, Julie A. Buckler . . . .paints a detailed picture of nineteenth-century Russian opera culture. By the end of the book, the reader has learned about seminal Western and Russian operas; the custom of opera-going; major personalities; and how opera permeated literature."—Canadian Slavonic Papers

• 1. Introduction; 2. Attending opera: a literary ethnography of the St Petersburg Bolshoi theater; 3. Embodying opera: the prima donna in Russia; 4. Representing opera: scene and self; 5. Naturalizing opera: the case of La Traviata in Russia; 6. Reading opera: the theater of psychological prose; 7. Divining opera: literary tales of operatic heroines; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Julie A. Buckler is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

"Buckler's book is the first serious English-language scholarship on Russian opera to be published since the Gorbachev/Yeltsin thaw. . . . The strengths of the book are twofold: revelation of new evidence discovered in archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow and exegesis of the process by which texts circulated between opera and prose literature. . . . Buckler is to be commended for her keen analyses of meta-theatrical novels and stories by lesser-known nineteenth-century authors. . . ."—The Russian Review "This monograph should be of interest to anyone concerned with nineteenth century Russian cultural life. . . . Readers of this monograph can only hope that [Buckler] will continue further research . . . and produce more work as rewarding as this book."—Slavic and East European Journal "The greatest attribute of The Literary Lorgnette . . . .is its wealth of information. Thanks to diligent research, Julie A. Buckler . . . .paints a detailed picture of nineteenth-century Russian opera culture. By the end of the book, the reader has learned about seminal Western and Russian operas; the custom of opera-going; major personalities; and how opera permeated literature."—Canadian Slavonic Papers

• 1. Introduction; 2. Attending opera: a literary ethnography of the St Petersburg Bolshoi theater; 3. Embodying opera: the prima donna in Russia; 4. Representing opera: scene and self; 5. Naturalizing opera: the case of La Traviata in Russia; 6. Reading opera: the theater of psychological prose; 7. Divining opera: literary tales of operatic heroines; Notes; Bibliography; Index.