The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738-1833
- ISBN-10
- 0810116138
- ISBN-13
- 9780810116139
- Category
- Country life in literature
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Author
- Thomas Newlin
Description
Using Russia's most prolific writer, Andrei Bolotov, as a focal point, this text offers an analysis of the pastoral impulse in 18th- and early 19th-century Russian culture. The study also focuses on the tensions that undercut and qualified this experiment in idyllicism.
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