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Russian Literature and Empire - Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Hardcover, New)
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Russian Literature and Empire - Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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This is the first book to provide a synthesizing study of Russian
writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of
empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine
Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against
Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set
in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian
readership to receive extensive attention. As well as exploring
literature as such, Susan Layton introduces material from
travelogues, oriental studies, ethnography, memoirs, and the
utterances of tsarist officials and military commanders. While
showing how literature often underwrote imperialism, the book
carefully explores the tensions between the Russian state's
ideology of a European mission to civilize the Muslim mountain
peoples, and romantic perceptions of those tribes as noble
primitives whose extermination was no cause for celebration. By
dealing with imperialism in Georgia as well, the study shows how
the varied treatment of the Caucasus in literature helped Russians
construct a satisfying identity for themselves as a semi-European,
semi-Asian people.
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