A History of Russian Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Dostoyevsky (1881)

PREFACE TRANSLITERATION CHAPTER I: The Literature of Old Russia 1. The Literary Language 2. Literary Conditions 3. Survey of Translated Works 4. The Kievian Period 5. The Chronicles 6. The Campaign of Igor, and its Family 7. Between Kiev and Moscow 8. The Muscovite Period 9. Muscovite Histories 10. The Beginnings of Fiction 11. The End of Old Muscovy: Avvakum CHAPTER II: The Passing of Old Russia 1. The South-Western Revival 2. The Transition in Moscow and Petersburg 3. The First Literary Verse 4. The Drama 5. Fiction and Chap-Books CHAPTER III: The Age of Classicism 1. Cantemir and Trediakovsky 2. Lomonosov 3. Narrative and Lyrical Poetry after Lomonosov 4. Derzhavin 5. The Drama 6. Eighteenth-Century Prose 7. Karamzin 8. Contemporaries of Karamzin 9. Krylov 10. The Novel CHAPTER IV: The Golden Age of Poetry 1. General Characteristics 2. Zhukovsky 3. Other Poets of the Older Generation 4. Pushkin 5. Minor Poets 6. Baratynsky 7. Yazykov 8. Metaphysical Poets 9. The Theatre 10. Griboyedov 11. The Poets’ Prose 12. The Rise of the Novel 13. The Prose of Pushkin 14. The Growth of Journalism CHAPTER V: The Age of Gogol 1. The Decline of Poetry 2. Koltsov 3. Tyutchev 4. Lermontov 5. The Poetry of Reflection 6. The Drama 7. The Novelists of the Thirties 8. Gogol 9. Lermontov’s Prose 10. The First Naturalists 11. The Petersburg Journalists 12. The Moscow “Circles” 13. The Slavophils 14. Belinsky CHAPTER VI: The Age of Realism: The Novelists (I) 1. Origin and Character of Russian Realistic Novel 2. The Early Work of Dostoyevsky 3. Aksakov 4. Goncharov 5. Turgenev 6. The Sentimental Philanthropists 7. Pisemsky 8. Novelists of Provincial Character CHAPTER VII: The Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and Playwrights 1. Criticism after Belinsky 2. Apollon Grigoriev 3. Herzen 4. The Radical Leaders 5. Slavophils and Nationalists 6. The Eclectic Poets 7. Alexey Tolstoy 8. Fet 9. Realistic Poets 10. Nekrasov 11. The Utter Decline of Poetry 12. The Drama, General Survey; Turgenev 13. Ostrovsky 14. Sukhovo-Kobylin, Pisemsky, and Minor Dramatists 15. The Costume Play CHAPTER VIII: The Age of Realism: The Novelists (II) 1. Tolstoy (Before 1880) 2. Dostoyevsky (After 1849) 3. Saltykov-Shchedrin 4. The Decline of the Novel in the Sixties and Seventies 5. The “Plebeian” Novelists BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. English 2. French and German 3. Russian INDEX