Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (English and Dutch Edition) - Hardcover

Wes, Marinus A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004096647 ISBN 13: 9789004096646

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1992

Synopsis

The author shows how the history of the classical tradition in Russia cannot be separated from the history of Russia's orientation to Western Europe in general. His book, based on many little-known and previously unexplored Russian materials, is the result of the first comprehensive research on the study of the Greek and Roman classics in Russia, and its sociocultural --utopian as well as ideological-- function within the framework of Russian cultural and intellectual history and Russian educational policy from the accession of Peter the Great to the death of Nicholas I.
A tradition does not exist apart from the people who adhere to it and the networks they create in order to ensure some kind of growth and continuity. Therefore the author has ordered his material into an interpretive framework based on a prosopographical approach towards the subject. Among specific writers and poets discussed are Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov and Turgenev.

About this title

About the Author:

Marinus A. Wes is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Groningen. His recent publications include: Michael Rostovtzeff, Historian in Exile. Russian Roots in an American Context (1990).

Language Notes:

Text: English, Dutch (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 9004096647
• ISBN 13: 9789004096646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376