In this Book
- Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Ilya Vinitsky's Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia is the first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)—a poet, translator of German romantic verse, and, crucially, mentor of Pushkin. It focuses overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history.
Vinitsky’s "psychological biography" argues that Zhukovsky very consciously set out to create for himself an emotional life that reflected his unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the evolution of ideas central to Russia’s literary and cultural identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades following the Napoleonic Wars.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- A Note on Transliteration and Chronology
- pp. xiii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- Part I. Family Romance
- 1. Breakfast at Dawn
- pp. 27-36
- 2. Holy Family
- pp. 37-55
- 3. The First Love
- pp. 56-82
- Part II. Love as Religion
- 5. Heavenly Abode
- pp. 110-136
- 6. Woman’s Lot
- pp. 137-152
- 7. The Dove and the Crocodile
- pp. 153-164
- Postscriptum. Allegro and Penserosa
- pp. 165-176
- Part III. Poet and Princess
- 8. The Enchanted Tutor
- pp. 179-197
- 9. The Flower of the Oath
- pp. 198-213
- 10. Under the Constellation of the Crown
- pp. 214-236
- Part IV. The German Wife
- 11. Sunset Love
- pp. 239-262
- 12. The Last Supper
- pp. 263-270
- Epilogue. The Heavenly Sisters
- pp. 271-284
- Works Cited
- pp. 355-374
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