Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 1/8/1998
EAN 9780521572927, ISBN10: 0521572924
Hardcover, 284 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Given the restrictions on political action and even political discussion in Russia, Russian literary journals have served as the principal means by which Russia discovered, defined and shaped itself. Every issue of importance for literate Russians - social, economic, literary - made its appearance in one way or another on the pages of these journals, and virtually every major Russian novel of the nineteenth century was first published there in serial form. Literary Journals in Imperial Russia - a collection of essays by leading scholars, originally published in 1998 - was the first work to examine the extraordinary history of these journals in imperial Russia. The major social forces and issues that shaped literary journals during the period are analysed, detailed accounts are provided of individual journals and journalists, and descriptions are offered of the factors that contributed to their success.
1. Introduction Robert A. Maguire
Part I. Eighteenth Century
2. The creation of journals and the profession of letters in the eighteenth century Gary Marker
Part II. Early Nineteenth Century
3. Periodicals in literary life of the early nineteenth century William Mills Todd III
4. Journal wars involving N. A. Polevoi's Moscow Telegraph, 1825–1834 Chester Rzadiewicz
Part III. Mid Nineteenth Century
5. Survey of Russian journals, 1840–1880 Robert L. Belknap
6. Belinsky the journalist and Russian literature Victor Terras
7. The messenger of Europe Alexis Pogorelskin
8. Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer
journal of the 1870s Deborah A. Martinsen
Part IV. Silver Age
9. Rise and decline of the 'literary' journal
1880–1917 Joan Delaney Grossman
10. The literary content of The World of Art William Harkins
11. Northern Herald
from traditional thick journal to forerunner of the avant-garde Stanley Rabinowitz
12. Chekhov and the journals of his time Andrew Durkin
List of titles
Bibliography.