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Book SynopsisA history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as told through the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished.
Trade ReviewThe Emergence of a Hero first appeared in Russian in 2016, and remains every bit as fine a work of scholarship in Leo Shtutin's welcome and accomplished translation. In minute detail and with finesse, Andrei Zorin portrays a precocious talent who grasped at the dawn of the Romantic age that a new type of personality was coming into being - a personality prone to melancholy and disillusionment but also idealistic, inclined to self-sacrifice and capable of delighting in love, friendship, philosophy, music and poetry. * Derek Offord, TLS *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Individual experience as a problem of cultural history 1: The emotional culture of the Russian nobility of the second half of the eighteenth century 2: The Prodigal Son (A Youthful Rebellion and the Dramas of Schiller) 3: Three Sisters (Strategies of Love and The New Heloise) 4: The New Abelard (A Thirst for Self-Destruction and The Sorrows of Young Werther) Conclusion
