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The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret Ziolkowski is the first to describe the vast exten



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES, pg. xiii*CHAPTER ONE: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO: Hagiography and History: The Saintly Prince in the Poetry of the Decembrists, pg. 34*CHAPTER THREE: Hagiography Revised: Adaptations of Legends and Tales, pg. 72*CHAPTER FOUR: Neo-Hagiography: The Saintly Monk and the Holy Fool in Modern Dress, pg. 121*CHAPTER FIVE: Hagiography and the Rigorous Hero: The Josephite Type in Later Russian Literature, pg. 190*CHAPTER Six: Anti-Hagiography: Tolstoy's Assault on Orthodoxy, pg. 218*CONCLUSION, pg. 246

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691604657, 978-0691604657
      ISBN10: 0691604657

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have treated examples of the influence of hagiographic writing on a few prominent Russian writers, Margaret Ziolkowski is the first to describe the vast exten



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES, pg. xiii*CHAPTER ONE: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO: Hagiography and History: The Saintly Prince in the Poetry of the Decembrists, pg. 34*CHAPTER THREE: Hagiography Revised: Adaptations of Legends and Tales, pg. 72*CHAPTER FOUR: Neo-Hagiography: The Saintly Monk and the Holy Fool in Modern Dress, pg. 121*CHAPTER FIVE: Hagiography and the Rigorous Hero: The Josephite Type in Later Russian Literature, pg. 190*CHAPTER Six: Anti-Hagiography: Tolstoy's Assault on Orthodoxy, pg. 218*CONCLUSION, pg. 246

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