{"product_id":"the-emergence-of-a-hero-a-tale-of-romantic-love-in-russia-around-1800-emotions-in-history-9780198852162","title":"The Emergence of a Hero A Tale of Romantic Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732813885783,"sku":"9780198852162","price":78.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198852162.jpg?v=1719998510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emergence-of-a-hero-a-tale-of-romantic-love-in-russia-around-1800-emotions-in-history-9780198852162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}