Russia: Its People and Its Literature
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
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Chapters (32)
- RUSSIA ITS PEOPLE AND ITS LITERATURE
- EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
- Translated from the Spanish
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- Book I. THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIA.
- I. Scope And Purpose of the Present Essay.
- II. The Russian Country.
- III. The Russian Race.
- IV. Russian History.
- V. The Russian Autocracy.
- VI. The Agrarian Communes.
- VII. Social Classes in Russia.
- VIII. Russian Serfdom.
- Book II. RUSSIAN NIHILISM AND ITS LITERATURE.
- I. The Word "Nihilism."
- II. Origin of the Intellectual Revolution.
- III. Woman and the Family.
- IV. Going to the People.
- V. Herzen and the Nihilist Novel.
- VI. The Reign of Terror.
- VII. The Police and the Censor.
- Book III. RISE OF THE RUSSIAN NOVEL.
- I. The Beginnings of Russian Literature.
- II. Russian Romanticism.—the Lyric Poets.
- III. Russian Realism: Gogol, its Founder.
- Book IV. MODERN RUSSIAN REALISM.
- I. Turguenief, Poet and Artist.
- II. Gontcharof and Oblomovism.
- III. Dostoiëwsky, Psychologist and Visionary.
- IV. Tolstoï, Nihilist and Mystic.
- V. French Realism and Russian Realism.
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